Word: varian
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Google pooh-poohs this claim. Hal Varian, the company's chief economist, has pointed out that most search engines look at only a small sample of their data in order to improve their results. In other words, Microsoft already has enough data to learn from its users. "It's not the quantity or quality of the ingredients that make a difference. It's the recipes," Varian told CNET. The recipes are Google's proprietary algorithms, which it has slaved over for more than a decade. They're Google's ultimate competitive advantage, and Google believes they'll help it weather...
...Varian, Google's chief economist, said that the current economic climate, rather than hurting Google, could well help it. "When there is a recessionary period, people are counting their pennies and looking for bargains," he said, noting that at Google, this is known as "the Wal-Mart Effect." He added: "We think this kind of effect could actually work to Google's benefit." Indeed, it could work better at Google, where everything is free, than at Wal-Mart...
...approved in 20 years, introduces a narrative voice absent from the film - Manuela's dead son Esteban, whose periodic, ghostly appearances both nag and reassure the characters, in much the same contradictory way that Manuela's grief haunts and comforts her. When Agrado delivers the great Almodóvarian declaration that "a woman is more authentic the more she looks like what she has dreamed for herself," the cruel subtext is that Manuela's vision of herself as a mother - like her son's ghost - remains forever out of reach...
Perhaps we can forgive Adamson for attempting to stake out his own artistic ground at play's end, and choosing a burial plot for that purpose. But in so doing he abandons the Almodóvarian spirit, which always favors birth over death. In this adaptation's postmodern flux, Almodóvar's unique voice, upbeat even amid the direst human tragedies, ultimately goes missing. Which is a shame. After all, it's his voice, and the way from hurt to healing it describes, that we most want to hear...
...first wave is already in. John Aldeborgh, a sales executive at Varian Semiconductor, got to keep his company-leased Porsche as part of an exit package approved earlier this month. Tyson Foods CEO John Tyson, who took home $4.3 million in salary and bonus last year, got another $324,472 in personal use of the company jet. Fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box spent more than $51,000 on financial planning for outgoing CEO Robert Nugent, who made $2.1 million in salary and bonus, and presumably can pay for his own investment advice. There?s been disclosures...