Word: tacks
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Longtime Harvard roommate Emily R. Murphy ’03, who flew in from London that morning, takes a different tack. “I’ve been in the same room as her while showering,” she says, sipping her cocktail. “That?...
...system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align the reader and the tag, but with RFID even old people and young children can use the system," says library-board senior development manager Wong Tack Wai. With costs down to 40 an item, libraries in Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and Macau have adopted the island's patented system...
This time around, however, they have taken a different marketing tack. Gone is the secrecy that enshrouded their first project. Carefree Cove is billed--front and center--as a lesbian and gay community. But its promise of upscale rustic living might be too pricey for some. Homes start at $200,000. Still, Razete is confident that she has got another hit on her hands. "The country is ready for this now," she says. And so too is a whole new generation of gay adults...
...much-maligned Harvard kicker Anders Blewett in a ludicrous placekicking contest. I’ll remember Eli kicking it Alper-style at a party in New Jersey, and how the dance floor was never the same. And I’d remember them for you more right now, and tack on a word about the other people who made this time beautiful, the Lande Spottswoods and Jessica Lees and Jonelle Lonergans and Daniel Mostellers, except the homily is ongoing and time is short, and I wanna be quiet so I can bear witness to the Gospel...
...dramatic statement in March, threatening to move its headquarters out of Germany to a locale with lower tax. The plan is controversial, and even members of the company's supervisory board, which must approve it, have voiced opposition. STMicro, under the leadership of Pasquale Pistorio, is taking a different tack. The company, with annual revenues of $6.32 billion, doesn't manufacture drams at all. It focuses instead on logic chips, and increasingly on flash memory cards, used to store pictures taken with a digital camera. Another difference: STMicro has formed partnerships with several key customers, such as mobile phone maker...