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While machines currently used on the network have one central processing unit (CPU), the new server will have several CPUs and can be expanded, Burner said yesterday...
...such steps as "customers courteously acknowledged within two minutes of arrival," "test drive offered to all customers," and "advisory relationship established by knowledgeable sales consultant who listens to customers, identifies needs and ensures needs are met." Chrysler offers financial incentives; to earn the highest $300 factory payment on each unit, a Chrysler dealer must rate in the 95th percentile or better on Chrysler's internal customer-satisfaction index. General Motors has initiated a ground-breaking project in California for the training -- or retraining -- of its sales force; the company also gathers some of its most important dealers for round-table...
Soon, Lieut. John Dewyer, head of the legal unit charged with ensuring that the jail observes all lawful provisions, pays a brief visit. "Any problems? Been receiving your mail O.K.?" In a tone more correct than friendly, Simpson says he has no complaints. "And is the bike O.K.?" Dewyer asks, referring to an Exercycle that has been made available to his prisoner. "Yeah, it's great," says Simpson with some animation. As on all such occasions, "the case" remains scrupulously unmentioned...
This accounts for at least part of our fascination with the Bobbitts and the Simpsons and the rest of them. We live in a culture that fetishizes the family as the ideal unit of human community, the perfect container for our lusts and loves. Politicians of both parties are aggressively "pro-family," even abortion-rights bumper stickers proudly link "pro-family" and "pro- choice." Only with the occasional celebrity crime do we allow ourselves to think the nearly unthinkable: that the family may not be the ideal and perfect living arrangement after all -- that it can be a nest...
...military sources, the Haitian leaders have virtually no plan for defending themselves from an invasion. Some soldiers have openly admitted their intention to drop their weapons at the first sign of trouble. Indeed, when an American helicopter recently flew over the town of Jeremie on surveillance, the local army unit thought the invasion had begun and simply ran away. The paramilitary units that aid the army in terrorizing ordinary Haitians have announced that their response to an invasion will be to "evaporate" into the civilian population and begin a guerrilla war. The clandestine campaign, they say, will involve poisoning water...