Word: unevennesses
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...that's not very likely. The U.S. appears to be witnessing something richer and more varied than either New Economy enthusiasts or dotcom alarmists have envisioned: the rapid--if still painful and uneven--merging of the old and new economies. That's evident from deals as complex as America Online's proposed $120 billion acquisition of Time Warner (the corporate parent of this magazine) or as simple as the act of buying a Pokemon video game or a bedding set from K Mart's website, BlueLight.com "What we're seeing," says Garth Saloner, a professor of e-commerce at Stanford...
...rather that any random person's vote behaves like the flipping of a coin. So just as you would be surprised to get exactly 50 million heads out of 100 million tosses, you would be equally surprised by a voting deadlock. Of course, as the polls become more uneven, the coin becomes lopsided and the probability that a tie will occur decreases drastically (because the number of voters is so large...
...should the athletically inclined get all the attention? More and more folks are finding that nothing beats having your own personal Bela Karolyi to help negotiate the balance beams and uneven bars of life. Need help finding a new career? Wondering when to have sex with your new love interest? In a quandary over what to serve at a hastily arranged dinner party? No question is too vexing to take up with your coach...
...still a surprise, for people used to the immaculate technical refinement of S?vres or Wedgwood, to see the lack of finish of Koetsu tea bowls. Slumped, pitted, cratered, they seem to preserve the primal character of the earth from which they're made. They're so uneven that you'd think they'd wobble if set on a table. Instead of pattern or fine painting, their surfaces are all drips and cracks that, contemplated in the dim natural light of the teahouse, may suggest large natural events. One of the most beautiful bowls in this show, black glaze...
...venue shifted back to the uneven confines of Iona for the Crimson's final game of the weekend. Every Crimson player saw action against an unheralded U.S. Merchant Marine Academy team that entered with no wins in three league games...