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Gaidano's loathing for storage media stems from a lost batch of electronic love letters. Back in 1984, when he was working for a company called Jasmine Technologies, he and his buddies used to go water-skiing on weekends, taking their first-generation Macintoshes and trading software. Gaidano still remembers that sinking feeling the weekend he booted up his Mac and saw the sad-face icon, indicating all was not well with the single floppy disc inside. Every precious byte, including all Gaidano's romantic correspondence, was gone. "I was all freaked out," he says. "Nobody could tell me what...
From Harvard’s career service officials to the College’s masters and tutors, and from job recruiters to the members of the Class of 2003 themselves, nobody dares to suggest that the newest batch of Harvard College alums will be entering anything but a tough job market...
...missing member. Her exact quote is missing too, but wags paraphrased it as: "Vincent Gallo stole my penis." The Brown Bunny has already entered movie lore as the worst film ever shown at a major festival. Cannes '03 may achieve a similar distinction. No one could recall a soggier batch of movies in the competition. The lures of the beach, lush weather and gorgeous people were never so seductive. As beautiful as it was outside the Palais, that's how depressing it was inside. Good movies, bad ones - and a huge batch of pictures that could be called ambitious mediocrities...
...models quickly. Major suppliers, some housed on site, receive orders 90 minutes before production time, cutting inventory costs for both parties. Nissan's suppliers also preassemble "modules," say, for a front-end or cockpit, and deliver them in the sequence in which they're needed on the line: a batch of leather-finished cockpits for SUVs, followed by plastic-finished versions and then different cockpits for pickup trucks. Nissan's paint shop was designed for high flexibility too, using robotic painters that are programmed to switch spray patterns based on the model...
...council later passed a fresh batch of grants to student groups, responding to previously postponed spring grant requests from the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship, among other requests...