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...climb LG has chosen is Mount U.S.A. This year LG is making its biggest thrust ever into the U.S. market, with a $100 million budget for advertising alone. Last year LG spent $10 million refurbishing a billboard in New York City's Times Square into a giant flat-screen TV, and it helped renovate a Los Angeles concert hall. LG is also buffing up its U.S. product line. Last July, LG began introducing its first LG-branded flat LCD and plasma TVs in the U.S., and next year it will launch its first high-definition TVs with built-in hard...
...Link DSM-320, which arrives in stores this month priced at $199, is one of the first in this emerging market to have built-in wireless capability based on the newer, faster wi-fi standard known as 802.11g. Translation: it's got enough thrust to handle DVD-quality video. (The first crop of media players could move only music and still images.) The design of D-Link's device also sets it apart from the pack. Wide, flat and sleek, it looks like a very slim CD changer and stacks nicely on top of other stereo and home-theater...
...same time, Harvard’s leader was also thrust into the public spotlight as an old foe of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R.-Wisc., defending his faculty’s academic freedom as McCarthy and other politicians targeted institutions of higher education for harboring suspected communists...
...victory crowns a remarkable odyssey. Born near Turin, Sonia Maino was 18 when she met Rajiv Gandhi at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England. The couple shunned politics, but the 1984 assassination of Rajiv's mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering...
Even so, Bloom says the response from the higher-education community as a whole could be stronger. “I would like to see a greater thrust of all the universities to modify the PATRIOT...