Word: pooled
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...beneficiaries of that backwardness is the U.S., which has attracted top-flight Indian techies and entrepreneurs with minimal effort to feed its hungry high-tech sector. But the Internet has begun to sneak through the barriers India erected against the outside world. Now the largest national pool of engineering talent in the developing world, a good proportion of which speaks English, is able to set up shop at home. Those engineers' underemployed sisters and cousins have proved willing to work cheaply at a new crop of labor-intensive jobs made possible by the distance-bridging technology of the Net. "Finally...
...little to lose. He believes that since life is full of mischance, you might just as well wander and risk. So he brings Rudy along on an odd job where he teaches him how to pound a nail straight, involves him in a game down at the pool hall and, riskiest of all, introduces the boy to his real father...
...growing number of small businesses, from insurance companies to carpenters, that are turning to business-to-business (B2B) exchanges, or e-marketplaces, as a way to save money and gain leverage against large companies. In the past couple of years, dozens of websites have appeared that pool requests by small businesses and help them strike better deals with suppliers of products and services. Along with greater convenience, exchanges offer prices 15% to 25% lower than a small business can negotiate on its own. Whether for buying office supplies or looking for payroll processing, the Internet is helping level the playing...
...even to make a little law themselves. Now, that's not fair. We're comfortable with buying or wrestling votes, or busing in mobs of protesters, but trying to use the courts to get people to abide by statutes, or to clear up murky ones, well, that's dirty pool...
...what socioeconomic differences exist between Harvard and Yale? Yale has the same successful alumni and the same mind-boggling influx of wealth as Harvard. Both are considered among the nation's very best schools. The students who go to Harvard and Yale come from the same applicant pool and thus both have the same cross-section of socioeconomic backgrounds. When the two schools meet during the festivities of The Game, it is a weekend of blue bloods attending an Ivy League reunion...