Word: synch
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...months ago "to make some easy money," about $160 a month. But the credit-collection work isn't easy. "Things get monotonous; there are rude customers," she says. Combine those factors with the 10-to 12-hour night shifts that Indian IT workers pull so they can stay in synch with U.S. daytime hours--India is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time--and "it reduces life to a vacuum," says Bhagat. "Where's the time to lead a normal existence...
...ANGELES In synch with the West Coast's laid-back lifestyle, Paul Smith's English-dandy look, including his pastel-striped shirts, has become the latest status symbol at Neiman Marcus, where the shirts sell...
...vinyl ones. Now Pioneer has introduced the DVJ-X1 ($3,299; pioneerprodj.com) the world's first DVD scratch-and-mix turntable. When you load up a DVD and start manipulating it--scratching just like a club DJ--the video on a TV monitor or projector reacts in perfect synch. Pioneer hopes the device will inspire a wave of DVD VJs to create new forms of visual entertainment. Imagine, at a dance club, looking up at a plasma screen over the VJ's head and seeing Al Pacino going "Say h-h-hello to my little fr-fr-fr-friend...
...from the left for voting for the second Iraq war, the USA Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind, G.O.P. chairman Ed Gillespie was already preparing CLUELESS-MASSACHUSETTS-LIBERAL placards everywhere he went. "Whether it's economic policy, national security policy or social issues, John Kerry is out of synch with most voters," Gillespie proclaimed on Jan. 23. Other G.O.P. hit men have him in their sights: "We made Al Gore look like a Massachusetts liberal," says one. "Can you imagine what we'll do with a Massachusetts liberal...
...Qaeda's ability to conduct highly sophisticated transnational terror operations such as the attacks in New York and Washington, but that Bin Laden's movement has adapted by morphing into a far more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures and energies of pre-existing local groups ideologically in synch with al-Qaeda. The perpetrators of last Saturday's Istanbul synagogue bombings, for example, are Turkish Islamists associated with al-Qaeda linked groups operating inside Turkey. Similarly, attacks in Riyadh and Indonesia have been carried out by members of local Islamist organizations with links to al-Qaeda. The very term...