Word: sharing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...industry backers, remains unconvinced of the scientific basis for all this global warming stuff despite the consensus among mainstream scientists. And they complain that developing nations aren't required by Kyoto to do enough, even though everyone agrees that the industrialized countries have created the lion's share of the problem...
Despite some early lapses, the Crimson was able to right itself and put together a seven-game winning streak to share the Ivy League lead. Harvard would have to defeat nationally ranked Dartmouth to keep its hopes alive...
Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors--or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...foundered under Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks, despite the efforts of Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), who spent nearly a year composing a screenplay in rhyme. Seussical, the $10 million musical pastiche of several Seuss stories narrated by Seuss's Cat, has also had its share of bumps on the way to Broadway. Key members of the creative team have been replaced, while lyricist Lynn Ahrens, who wrote Ragtime with her partner Stephen Flaherty, has faced the challenge of simulating Seuss's inimitable poetry--"trying to keep the gist of that," Ahrens says, "while trying to find different rhythms...
...system as durable but delicate as America's, elections are determined by counting, not spinning or suing. Legitimacy and social peace are maintained not just by law but also by convention. The understanding we share is that all balloting is flawed. When 100 million people go to the polls, there will inevitably be errors, omissions, confusions. But we all agree--in advance--to accept the verdict of the numbers (barring fraud, of course) because we assume that, first, in the end the irregularities will cancel themselves out, and that, second, once the challenges begin, the challenges will never...