Word: digitized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...latest polls, Gore and Lieberman are virtually tied with Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his running mate Richard B. Cheney, after falling to a double-digit deficit after last week's Republican convention. The Democrats will hold their convention next week...
DIED. JOHN TUKEY, 85, statistician and National Medal of Science winner who coined the words software and bit (for binary digit); of a heart attack; in New Brunswick, N.J. His work extended beyond mathematics to environmental and social issues. He warned that aerosol cans harmed the ozone layer, criticized Alfred Kinsey's sex-research methods and advised that the Census be adjusted to count more inner-city dwellers...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE International-minded investors looking to diversify their portfolios haven't had to go far to get good returns. This year U.S. funds dedicated to Canadian stocks have surpassed most other international funds. Unlike the volatility experienced by Asia, Canada has maintained double-digit gains for the past five years, with an average rate of return of 13.17%. The cheap Canadian dollar has helped its exporting companies, such as telecom supplier Nortel, as well as domestic industries, such as tourism...
...million. Until recently it wasn't too hard, even for an undergraduate, to line up donations. As long as tech stocks were pushing the NASDAQ index to record highs, VCs could take scores of seedling companies public before they had time to fail, and walk away with triple-digit gains. The recent market downturn doesn't seem to faze Newman. "We're taking a long-term view," he says, like a Silicon Valley...
...important thing to remember is that bits are bits. In the digital world there are no movies or magazines or pieces of music. There are just 1s and 0s, for which we did not even have a name until 1946 when Princeton statistician John Tukey concatenated the words binary and digit into the term...