Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Loker Commons. Those fluorescent lights that make you feel like you're the hamburger being kept warm for the customers. Nice idea, but try again Harvard Dining Services...
When she is tired, she can slide, invisibly and gracefully, into auto-pilot, so she can keep on thinking even as she tells her stories. Her voice is at once warm and precise--her transitions seamless as she knits together bits of speeches, sweet childhood memories, op-ed arguments, motherly advice--so that even a recitation feels like a personal confidence, shared over dinner with a stranger and a tape recorder...
...this for a switch? Digital Equipment Corp. is replacing computers with humans. Digital has hired 90 people to do something computers do badly: answer the damned phone. The company unplugged its automated system in Littleton, Massachusetts, where potential customers inquire about products and services. DEC is not going warm and fuzzy on us. The company made the change for the same reason it installed the automated system in the first place: to improve efficiency. "By firing the computer and bringing in live people to handle customer calls, we've dramatically increased both customer satisfaction and sales and marketing performance," says...
...home video of her wedding to a television tabloid show. In addition, sister Dominique confessed that she had sold topless photos of Nicole to the National Enquirer. None of this helped the Browns. Simpson used his two days on the stand at the custody trial essentially as a warm-up for the testimony he would give in the civil proceedings...
Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It's the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale for the lava flows and firestorms, the lake that turns to acid (the better to eat their boat) and the blizzard of volcanic ash that eventually buries a small town. We want to feel for them. But not too much. We want our doomsdays...