Word: monitoring
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...owning does not carry as much perceived value as it used to. People are now more interested in experiences than in owning things." It's all about the benefits of the good life without all the headaches and commitment. In 1991, for example, 57% of people in a Yankelovich Monitor survey cited "being in control of their life" as the most important sign of accomplishment and success, while 38% said an expensive car was such a marker for them. By 2003, however, 76% thought being in control was a sign of success, while only 23% thought that an expensive...
...futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study by the Z-Wave Alliance found 72% of Americans say they would like the ability to monitor their home when they are gone. Nearly 34% of builders offered automation capability in 2005, according to the National Association of Home Builders. But the real breakthrough is the widespread availability of new wireless devices that can be placed in strategic locations...
...Jennifer Hudson addresses being the third African-American actress to win an Oscar: "This represents change." Press room cheers as Martin Scorsese wins the Best Director Oscar on the monitor behind her for The Departed. That represents change, too. Then the inevitable happens - someone asks the first Britney Spears question of the night. Says Hudson of the pop star's meltdown, "I don't know what's going on and it ain't my business...
...extraterrestrial hotelier. He has long talked of pharmaceutical companies doing research--particularly cancer research--in the microgravity environment of space. That Genesis even exists stuns the man behind TransHab's design, former NASA engineer William Schneider, who visits Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas every few weeks to monitor progress on the full-size habitat, set for launch by 2010. "I went to humor him at first, but when I got there, he had built TransHab out of aluminum and had a small-scale [model] inflated," says Schneider. At full size, 45 ft. long and 22 ft. in diameter...
...Office of the Registrar, which will run a complete grade audit and e-mail each student about their outstanding graduation requirements. Professors will also receive an e-mail explaining the student’s situation and the H-1B policy. At this point, the Registrar will monitor the student’s grades and inform the Office of Career Services (OCS) once their requirements have been met. OCS will then send a letter of certification to the student’s employer. Kuanysh Y. Batyrbekov ’07, who arranged the dinner with Gross, said he felt...