There is a workman in America who earns as much as a company director. He is Max Quarterman, a thirty-year-old plasterer(泥瓦匠). Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate. His(1)are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the like, but Max’s seven-bedroom house—(2)$ 80,000—is the largest in the area. (3)outside the house are Max’s $7000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini.(4)is a 150 color TV set and the family’s pride— a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labor—saving(5)and luxury(豪华) furniture. How can a plasterer(6)all this The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max does contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm(7)them as human machines, the best and quickest in the(8), who can do as much in two days as any two-man team can in two weeks. How do they(9)it Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret(10)in Max’s hod(桶) in which he carries the plaster(石膏) to the site of the job. Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual weight of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus(11)to get on with the plastering. Besides, (12)man wastes time smoking, and they(13)their lunch break to a(14)of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in America today, and if he gets as(15)as $150, it’s a disaster.
You want to use the Web to let Eternal users or your customers look at corporate information. But you want to keep installation at the user end (66) and you don’t want just anyone to get (67) your databases.
B.
That may be where an application server enters the picture. For more user machine independent, these t software packages, typically written in the (68) programming language.
C.
for use on Windows NT-based systems, act as go-betweens linking browser-equipped end users to the databases that (69) the information they need to (70) 。
Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, (1) into a hobby and lately has (2) into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates (3) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep (4) of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they (5) that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and (6) Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.
B.
During 1994, they (7) yahoo into a customized database designed to (8) the needs of the thousands of users (9) began to use the service through the closely (10) Internet community. They developed customized software to help them efficiently locate, identify and edit material stored on the Internet.
When the subject is money, women often cling to two persistent stereotypes, one a pleasant dream, the other a nightmare.
B.
In the (1) , they hate fantasies that a white (2) will provide happily-ever-after financial security. (3) the nightmare, by contrast, they fear that an impoverished retirement could (4) them into bag ladies on the street.
C.
Now (5) advisers and managers are (6) forces to change those images. In a proliferation of books, seminars, conferences, Web (7) , and investment clubs, they are (8) out to women, helping them to become financially savvy and economically (9) . Prince Charming, they warn, may not come.
D.
"If and when he does show (10) , he may have less than you do," quips Brooke Stephens, a financial adviser.