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Since the early 1990s, Samsung has led the global market in DRAM semiconductors, the memory chips that are vital to almost every digital product we use. During the current slump, as competitors like Hitachi and NEC have been backing away from the chip business, Samsung has been diving in, introducing two new lines. The company has leveraged its digital know-how to dominate the manufacturing of computer monitors and state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. This summer Samsung, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will introduce the world's first 50-in. TV with digital light-processing technology, now used...
...return to basics--four years of math, science, English, social studies and a foreign language--while assessing student performance in state-mandated tests. At the same time, American kids, Internet savvy and keyboard confident from about third grade, have developed the skills and comfort with technology that are vital for success in the job market. (Trust me on this: these days, when I have to give a speech, my daughters, ages 11 and 13, turn my scribbled notes into a PowerPoint presentation.) And unlike German and Japanese students, who are talked at by teachers for most of their school years...
...belters. "If ever there was a time when people needed to laugh and relax, its now," he insists. "The Producers provides some balance to today's tensions. It's wonderfully offensive to all creeds!" He bristles at the suggestion that musicals are all fluff. "Not merely escapism. Escapism is vital." And contemporary relevances are there if you look for them, he says. The Producers, after all, is about the corrupting of an accountant, a very modern theme in this post-Enron...
...Since the early 1990s, Samsung has led the global market in dram semiconductors, the memory chips that are vital to almost every digital product we use. During the current slump, as competitors like Hitachi and NEC have been backing away from the chip business, Samsung has been diving in, introducing two new lines. The company has leveraged its digital know-how to dominate the manufacturing of computer monitors and state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. This summer Samsung, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will introduce the world's first 50-in. TV with digital light-processing technology, now used...
Menino created the Backstreets program in November 2001 to help “backstreets operations”—small and medium-sized industrial and commercial businesses—stay vital and remain in their neighborhoods...