Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well as the controversy over fund raising in the last election and all the publicity over it, as a spur to action," said Clinton. The President, aides say, is prodding the Federal Communications Commission to use free campaign air time as a quid pro quo for allowing broadcasters to switch over to technically superior digital signals. Underlying Clinton's maneuverings is a serious question for a democracy: does free speech include the right of wealthy special interests to drown out the voices of those who can't afford TV ads? Democrats as well as NewsCorp head Rupert Murdoch, whose scrappy...
...Danilewitz is also very concerned about the "confusion" or "havoc" that might be caused by allowing transgendered individuals to live their lives as their chosen gender. If the situation were as simple as he portrays it to be--people whimsically deciding to switch genders at will and for no apparent reason--then his concerns would be valid. Perhaps a look at the definition of "gender" adopted by the Cambridge City Council would ease Mr. Danilewitz's worries...
...just make toast? Yes and no. "It's a 50-year jump all at once," says restructuring guru Michael Hammer, who is doing a brisk business in the utility field. "It's not all bad. It's not all good. It's different." When you flip a light switch, you probably couldn't care less where the power was generated, how it was routed or who sends it from the substation to the light bulb. But in the new power game these become "unbundled," discrete businesses. The consulting trade would call it a paradigm shift, because all the rules have...
...someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA. THIS IS YOUR TOSHIBA...
...this for a switch? Digital Equipment Corp. is replacing computers with humans. Digital has hired 90 people to do something computers do badly: answer the damned phone. The company unplugged its automated system in Littleton, Massachusetts, where potential customers inquire about products and services. DEC is not going warm and fuzzy on us. The company made the change for the same reason it installed the automated system in the first place: to improve efficiency. "By firing the computer and bringing in live people to handle customer calls, we've dramatically increased both customer satisfaction and sales and marketing performance," says...