That's because the city has equipped three bus routes with wireless technology that can pull off a trick every commuter has dreamed of: switching a red light to green on command.
Although Intel, under CEO Andy Grove, was able to abandon the memory business and focus on microprocessors at a time when Japanese firms, backed by generous government subsidies, were driving their American rival out of the memory market, the company has not been able to pull a similar trick when it comes to the architectural transition from x86 to ARM.
Now that business seems to have stabilised, banks must pull off a harder trick than the simple one of slashing jobs: how to position themselves to take advantage of an upturn, while keeping costs tight in case the market turns down again.
Now Meg Whitman is trying to pull off a rather different trick - stopping a computer industry titan from slipping away into irrelevance.
It would be a difficult trick to pull off, for sure, but one that might well be worth attempting.
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It is a tough trick to pull off, as any working parent knows.
The film is famous for a camera trick Hitchcock invented to represent Scotty's vertigo - a simultaneous zoom-in and pull-back of the camera that creates a disorientating depth of field.
This potted history may tell what happened, but it raises a question: how did Enron manage to pull off its confidence trick?
Now, in order to pull off this hat trick, Ben, you have to look a little dumb--and so far you have been doing a fine job of this.
Producers knew they couldn't pull off that trick with this year's Battle of Blackwater, a big rebel siege that begins on a river and spills over into the capital city.
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