Word: semis
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...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
...Bonaldo took Price on because he saw pictures of the boats Price made and, since he is in semi-retirement, didn't mind taking the time to help an apprentice. "He liked the idea of teaching someone what he knows," says Price. Though Bonaldo doesn't speak English, the language barrier was not a major obstacle. "It was pretty obvious," Price recalls. "Bonaldo would take a piece of wood and draw a line on it, and I knew I had to cut it there." Price also knew his stuff; he had taken four years off from Berea College in Kentucky...
...Look at the teen flicks of the '80s. In their vision of high school, "crowd" is everything. In 1983's "Valley Girl," Nicolas Cage plays a semi-mohawked Hollywood surf-punk with a crush on the suburban aristocrat of the title. When he sings along to a new wave tune on the radio, her cheerleaderish friend reacts as is he's reciting from "Mein Kampf." When he and his buddy decide to sneak into a party at her house where jocks in polo shirts cavort to bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things...
...have prime seats. We are also sitting in the section where a semi-famous vendor named Perry sells beer. Perry sells beer fast and opens it even faster; he’s got an electric bottle opener (based on an electric screwdriver) that whirrs enticingly, and he makes it a spectator sport. People pull out their wallets just to get a close-up of the damn thing. He should sell that thing at colleges—he’d be set for life...
...First there was AOL, the rich friend of Father?s (the two already share in the Time Warner Entertainment partnership) swooping in on the heels of the Comcast offer to discuss a glorious scenario in which AOL and AT&T form anything from a semi-monogamous dating arrangement to a full-blown marriage...