Word: though
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...advances" seem to go too far. At last week's Ericsson Open (named for the cellular phone company) tennis tournament in Miami, the net was marked with a Mercedes-Benz symbol at each end. This was the first time I had seen this particular type of selling, though the behind-the-plate ads, both virtual and real, invaded televised baseball a few years ago. Examples abound: In one of the large office buildings in downtown Boston, elevators now have little screens that play commercials to the captive audience. Buying books at the Coop is an exercise in recycling all kinds...
Managers must be careful not to swing too far the other way though, warns Olivier Zitoun, CEO of Eveo.com an online digital-video broadcaster. A democratic approach can get messy, he says, and stall the decision-making process...
...medium whose greatest promise is in its interactivity, though, the Net art pictured can be frustratingly inaccessible. To view all nine works on a home PC, you must install as many as four software "plug-ins." Even on the exhibition floor, where a system was all set up, a visitor struggled to navigate through one work's flashing sequence of pink and gray screens, giving up after only a few seconds. Clearly, for all its potential, Net art still has a few bugs to work...
...told the Washington Post. But there were warning signs: One analyst, not with the CIA but assigned to the agency at the time, was personally familiar with that part of Belgrade and persistently questioned the target, twice trying to warn the on-the-scene targeting command. Even more fundamental, though, is that if the failure is indeed systemic, the fault surely lies with the managers responsible for the systems. That the agency didn't have any procedures in place for selecting what turned out to be the only target it picked for the military during the 78-day air campaign...
...believe he'll be available in some capacity, whether starting or in relief out of the bullpen," Crockett said. "He threw today, and it seemed as though he was feeling pretty good after...