3/4/13 Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig by Nicole Gelinas‚ City Journal Autumn 2007 SEA RCH SITE GO Advance d Se arch home about CJ CJ books archives links subscribe contact us rss advertise Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig Nicole Gelinas America’s most ambitious infrastructure project inspired engineering marvels—and colossal mismanagement. Search by Topic: EMAIL AR TIC LE PR INTER FR IENDLY R ESPO ND TO AR TIC LE SELEC TED R ESPO NSES TR ANSLATE SUBSC R IBE TO
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large and small states have fared well and that poor performance is not necessarily linked to size. In fact‚ today‚ technology can help make governing larger territories easier and bring even far-flung areas closer. Much more than the size of a state‚ it is the quality of governance and administration‚ the diverse talent available within the state’s population‚ and the leadership’s drive and vision that determine whether a particular state performs better than the others. A small state is likely
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A glimpse of Big Data Jan. 2013 What is big data? “Big data is not a precise term; rather it’s a characterization of the never ending accumulation of all kinds of data‚ most of it unstructured. It describes data sets that are growing exponentially and that are too large‚ too raw or too unstructured for analysis using relational database techniques. Whether terabytes or petabytes‚ the precise amount is less the issue than where the data ends up and how it is used.”------Cite from EMC’s report
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Small Business Management March 24 – May 17 2014 Course Description The elements necessary to establish and operate a small business are examined in light of internal and external environmental requirements. Prerequisite: MGMT 330 Proctored Exams: None Instructor Information Dr. Jay Griesser‚ DBA‚ Business and Computer Science‚ Nova Southeastern University Email: jwgriesser@cougars.ccis.edu Textbooks Hatten‚ Timothy S.‚ Small Business Management: Entrepreneurship and
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Zach English The Big Move Every feeling from being sad to anticipated raced through my head like a nascar. I was getting ready to move in a couple months to Las Vegas‚ Nevada. A trip that consisted of being away from home 2‚000 miles plus and counting. Thoughts of saying goodbye to everyone and packing just made it worse. Months went to days in a matter of seconds‚ it felt like. First
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At the end of September‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of The Tipping Point and Blink‚ published a piece‚ Small Change: Why the Revolution Will not be Tweeted‚ in that magazine making the argument that social media tools like Facebook and Twitter were overhyped as agents of social change at best and at worst‚ completely useless in helping move the kind of high-risk actions that are strong enough to bring down governments and change cultures. Using the wave
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The Small Intestine Anatomy and Physiology I 3/10/2014 The majority of the digestive process is done by the small intestine‚ absorbing almost all of the nutrients you receive from foods into your bloodstream. The small intestine begins at the pyloric sphincter of the stomach and coils around the abdominal cavity‚ and then opens into the large intestine. “The intestines process about 2.5 gallons of food‚ liquids and bodily waste every day.” (Inner Body) There are three features that the small
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The small intestine (or small bowel) is the part of the gastrointestinal tract following the stomach and followed by the large intestine‚ and is where much of the digestion and absorption of food takes place. It receives bile juice and pancreatic juice through heptopancreatic duct‚ controlled by Spincter of oddi. Ininvertebrates such as worms‚ the terms "gastrointestinal tract" and "large intestine" are often used to describe the entire intestine. This article is primarily about the human gut‚ though
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Mike Preston Lisa Hemminger Art is Film 26 February 2010 “All the Dude ever wanted was his rug back” To the casual viewer The Big Lebowski‚ a 1998 film written by film maker brothers Ethan and Joel Coen and directed by Joel‚ would appear to be a comedy rip off of the 1940’s Los Angeles detective film The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks. It features a hippie dropout from the seventies named “the Dude” (Jeff Bridges) who gets caught up with his bowler buddies Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve
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Is That All There Is? Joe Lessard Leaving City Post BY KAYTE VANSCOY‚ FRI.‚ JULY 31‚ 1998 Assistant City Manager Joe Lessard photograph by John Anderson The rumors started over a year ago‚ but it should come as no surprise to those familiar with the protracted pace of city government that it took this long to hear that Assistant City Manager Joe Lessard would be leaving his post at the city of Austin. Last June‚ when the then-new City Council took a retreat with upper-level city staff‚ the scuttlebutt
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