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Gregory said that success in local politics is heavily dependent on grass-roots campaigning...
Until recently, attempts to develop speech interfaces to PCs had met with little success. Early products have had a presence for years--Newton's Dragon Systems has been around since the early 80s--but none of these products did a passable job, and were mostly used by disabled individuals...
DELIVERABLES. To claim his own success, Clinton needs what U.S. officials call deliverables: specific commitments from Beijing that will prove the strategy of engagement is paying off. While Washington wants results on human rights, trade and nuclear nonproliferation, China wants concessions on Taiwan, permanent most-favored-nation status, and admission to the World Trade Organization. It's going to be tough to satisfy either side...
Indeed, many delegates to the Bonn meeting are offended that the U.S. is making any demands at all, considering how little it has done to fight the greenhouse effect. In fairness, while the European Union has taken the problem more seriously, some of its success was due to political accident. The collapse of the Soviet bloc, for example, allowed Germany to shut the former East Germany's most antiquated factories. And in England, the declining power of coal miners' unions enabled factories to switch to cheaper but less polluting fuels they'd long favored anyway...
...PATCH, NO CATCH Taking a pill may help smokers kick the habit. In a study, 25% of those who used the antidepressant bupropion quit smoking for at least a year--about the same success rate as the patch...