Word: transferals
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...deal with only relatively small vocabularies -- usually a few dozen words at a time. But that's enough to take orders at fast-food restaurants or to handle toll-free calls in which a customer must choose from a fixed list of catalog items, airline flights or bank transfer options. More than $150 million worth of voice-recognition systems were sold in the U.S. last year, according to Voice Information Associates, a research firm in Lexington, Mass., and the market is growing more than 40% a year. The big breakthrough will come when computers that can follow conversational speech become...
...nominal enemies, especially in the arms trade. The demand for these services was particularly keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning its war with Iraq, sought missiles for Saddam Hussein's regime, but was rebuffed by the U.S. and France. B.C.C.I. stepped in and brokered a deal with China as a supplier...
...example, the highly sensitive question of B.C.C.I.'s direct involvement in the secret arms-for-hostages deals in Iran during the 1980s, in which it acted as a broker and financier of weapons sales. Ollie North maintained three accounts at the B.C.C.I. Paris branch, and B.C.C.I. was used to transfer money to the contras...
...Animal data just doesn't transfer to humans,"Bishops says. "It's just not useful information...
...back. Swimmers are working on building up their arms because about 80% of their propulsion through the water comes from the arms' movement. Cyclists now give more attention to their hamstrings, a group of muscles in the back of the thigh. "The hamstrings stabilize the knee and transfer mechanical energy between the joints," explains biomechanist Robert Gregor of the University of California, Los Angeles...