Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at M.I.T. who has done extensive surveys of individual companies on this issue, asked senior executives what they hoped to get out of their investments in computer power. Their four top goals: to improve service to customers, target new customers, improve quality of products or services, and reduce total costs. Only the fourth objective would have much effect on productivity statistics as they are currently measured, which reflects an old-fashioned bias toward things that can be readily counted. Nowadays, simply counting widgets doesn't tell us what's going on. Brynjolfsson likens that...
...resistance is melting, and Fong's rise is proof. Early this year he looked like a long shot to get out of the Republican primary; now he is poised to become the Senate's first Chinese American from outside Hawaii. He can thank Boxer for that. Already a G.O.P. target for her strident partisanship, Boxer invited still more attacks for her belated criticism of President Bill Clinton's adultery. (Her daughter is married to the First Lady's brother.) In contrast to the vociferous Boxer, Fong, who is pro-choice-in-the-first-trimester, delivers speeches like a CPA explaining...
...most daring deep-space missions NASA has ever planned is turning out to be one of the least publicized. The target is a large asteroid named 1992KD, which orbits the sun millions of miles from Earth. But that destination is almost incidental to the performance of the spacecraft that will make the trip. Though it looks little different from countless other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that...
...goes as planned, Deep Space 1, scheduled for launch later this month, will be the forerunner of a new generation of spacecraft. While flight planners hope the ship will make some interesting observations about the target asteroid, including its composition and the structure of its surface, DS1's prime assignment is to validate a host of new technologies NASA had always considered too risky to try on a high-profile mission. Says Marc Rayman of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DS1's chief engineer: "We have an unproven propulsion system, powered by an unproven solar array, commanded by an unproven navigation system...
...that no person could answer them honestly without hurting others and so would be tempted to lie. Clinton's lies are low crimes and misdemeanors. His punishment should be, at most, censure, but it seems superfluous. Does anyone doubt that trashing your legacy and your family and being the target of endless jokes are punishment that perfectly fits the crime? Starr's conduct, on the other hand, is the Big Lie. And that scares me. JULIA F. GRANT Stamford, Conn...