Word: whiz
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...again the media told me more than I wanted to know. Any day I fully expected the CBS Evening News to sign off as follows: "Thanks for being with us. This is Dan Rather reporting from inside the President's colon. Good night." George Zinnemann Upper Marlboro, Md. The Whiz Kid's Exit...
...Pentagon officials) and published instructions on how to construct a letter bomb. But most remarkable of all, the first reports said, the youngsters had even managed to shift the orbit of one or more communications satellites. That feat, the New York Post decided, was worth a front-page headline: WHIZ KIDS ZAP U.S. SATELLITES...
...result was a series of groundbreaking new work rules to enhance morale and productivity at Saturn. Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people. Each team would be responsible for large sections of the car, and its members would have the latitude to reach a consensus on how to divide up and rotate job assignments. Most important, production workers would receive a salary instead of an hourly wage as they...
...course, such a technical approach can’t quite be replicated in a live setting, so Menomena were forced to scale back at T.T.’s, resulting in a surprisingly low ratio of gee-whiz effects and sequencing to good old-fashioned rockin?...
...pretty cool. I mean, honestly—last year’s Hollywood offerings like The Day After Tomorrow, Shrek 2, I, Robot, and Catwoman were way too arty. It’s good that Hollywood will finally be returning to films with extravagant budgets, whiz-bang special effects, Tom Cruise, and aliens. It’s about time...