Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week Clinton's friends on Capitol Hill--and suddenly there were plenty more of them to be found--were using one argument after another to stoke the public's burgeoning pro-Clinton sentiment in hopes of derailing the impeachment train. Democrats called the process partisan and unfair, and charged Starr with omitting or downplaying exculpatory evidence in his report (such as Lewinsky's statement that she was never asked to lie). Next they will likely focus on Tripp...
...false statement is absurd. At the time, they point out, there was no way of knowing the truthfulness of the statement by Monica to Tripp that she would not sign her affidavit until Jordan produced a job. And regardless of what prompts an investigation, facts discovered in the process of proving or disproving the original allegation are fair game. The argument, says a Starr ally, "fits the pattern of trying to politicize a legal case to divert attention from the facts...
...novel like Beloved--dense, elliptical, teeming with allusion and metaphor, leaping from now to then and back again, in pain. Turning a book into a film, Morrison notes, is "an ongoing battle, between the images of language and the images of the image. That's what the creative process...
...with "filmic sensibility," as Abrams calls it. "Apart from getting the show off the ground," says Reeves, "the challenge is to find a way to make it look like a movie." That means different lighting and a different rhythm, one that allows moments between lines to blossom. In the process Abrams and Reeves must resist the temptation to do multiple takes, which time and the budget simply won't allow...
This represents a great leveling of the investment playing field. More than a decade ago, when I set up my hedge fund, my principal worry was whether I could get public information in time to process it at the speed of the big boys who controlled billions of dollars. I even positioned my fund near my old employer, Goldman Sachs, so I could quickly get to its research library. I paid the $1,500 a month necessary to get the latest financial feeds. I had to negotiate hard with brokers for lower commissions...