It found that traditional so-called "nuclear" families were more likely to have more hi-tech gadgetry in their home than almost any other group it measured.
Unlike high-definition video, which can result in disconcerting detail (hello, pores), hi-res audio smooths more than it sharpens.
But, due to CBO scoring conventions, the money it generates appears to both make the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund appear more solvent and reduce the general fund deficit.
Athletes are a superstitious bunch, but consulting a fortune teller might seem a little bit too "ancient Olympics" for many of today's athletes, who put more faith in hi-tech equipment and specialized training regimes.
In 1958 they started Clairtone, which made hi-fi systems that looked more like furniture than stereos.
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Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress.
Dual 1-inch Linear Magnetic DriveTM "Twoofers" more likely found in large expensive hi-fi speakers for remarkable clarity and range.
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It is set to spread rapidly in 2006, now that most manufacturers, notably HP, are shipping MCE home media centres (attractive PCs with all the bells and whistles that look fine sitting next to your hi-fi in the lounge and have one or more digital TV tuners built in).
Is the shake-out of the hi-tech and telecommunications sector over or will more companies issue profits warnings, unable to maintain the sort of growth they enjoyed at the peak of the boom?
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Many experts predicted these hi-tech firms - full of young, mobile people - would simply move abroad in search of more sympathetic tax regimes.
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