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...moment when Gore broke into song with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who had just endorsed him. In Gore's defense, Kennedy kind of put him on the spot. After a meeting with senior citizens at a housing complex in Portsmouth, N.H., Kennedy spontaneously grabbed the housing director (also an Irishman) and Gore and started in on When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...than 1,500 pages of letters McCain wrote as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee to agencies under the committee's jurisdiction. That was intended to prove that even if McCain had assisted Paxson and a wide variety of others, such as BellSouth, Ameritech and US West, he had also helped nondonors, including a Texas radio station. In one case he asked for an investigation of the use of cartoon characters on gambling machines, against the wishes of major gambling-industry contributors...
...audience, consisting of the truest of true believers--Cisco employees--is an easy sell. Chambers and Cisco have made at least 2,500 of Cisco's 23,000 employees stock-option millionaires, which in turn has convinced the rest that they too will be millionaires. Investors have also got Cisco's brand of router religion, as the stock has split eight times and risen about 8,000% in the 10 years since it went public at $18 a share. One share of Cisco bought in 1990 is worth $14,000 today. The company, founded by John Morgridge as a technology...
...Canadian counterpart Nortel have built powerful, decades-long relationships with telephone companies and service providers. As voice and data networks converge--and data come to account for more than 90% of network traffic--Cisco has boasted that its networks, which are predominantly data or IP (Internet protocol) networks, will also become the leading voice networks...
...chase plane by rolling onto its back at 400 mph, diving and smashing into the California desert. An investigation found that the plane had even prepared to die: It shut its engine down, erased classified computer data and set its flaps for a death spiral. The investigation also found that at the same time, more than 100 miles away, a second team of Air Force personnel preparing for another Global Hawk test was trying the system's "flight-termination" command. The Hawk, within range of both stations, intercepted the second team's command and dived. It was incapable of distinguishing...