Word: slotting
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First Pitch: Term that indicates roughly when each baseball game will commence. Often occupies a “prime-time” slot. First pitch cannot be adequately understood without understanding “final out.” The “final out” usually takes place more than three hours after the “first pitch.” At this point, the “prime-time” span has been compromised, and younger baseball fans will have to read about the outcome of the game (initiated by our term...
...Nicole Kidman’s character in The Peacemaker, addressed her Kennedy School of Government (KSG) course, “Non-state Threats to International Security,” in the days immediately following the attacks. When listing top terrorist targets in the country, Harvard filled the number five slot...
...meantime, as some members of the dance community are reluctant to request a permanent slot in the HRDC’s limited two-show main stage season, directors of potential dance productions continue to seek access to the mainstage through the application procedure...
...linking computers to one another and to the Net in a wireless local-area network, or WLAN. It also has the advantage of being unequivocally here and relatively easy to use. All you need is a specialized PC card (for as low as $90) that slips into a slot in your computer, and an access point or base station (available for less than $300) capable of linking several computers. The downside? Higher power means higher power consumption--which reduces a laptop's battery life drastically. "It's physics," says Jeff Calcagno, vice president of strategy and corporate development at Widcomm...
...water for the sharks in Dubya's sea. Thanks to Cheney and Rumsfeld, a generation of players with a well-honed ideology give the team a distinct hard-nosed tilt. When a friend asked Paul Wolfowitz, who is one of them, why he took the managerial No. 2 slot at Defense, he gave a one-word answer "Powell"?though Wolfowitz now denies it. These guys don't salute anyone, and they don't operate behind closed doors. They speak loudly, in public, and they make demands. Powell faces rivals who are interested less in solving problems, as he is, than...