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  • At that point, a minority of the committee worked outside the established process, under the leadership of John Calvert, who was not a member of the committee, to produce a Minority proposal, which they were allowed to present directly to the Board.

    KCPress Forum, and David Awbrey - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Our observing that the State of minority was designed to be an Education for mature Life, and that our good or ill Success in a mature Life, depends upon our good or ill improvement of our Advantages in Minority, renders it credible that this Life was designed to be an Education, for a future one, and that our

    John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

  • I truly believe that this is brought on by what I call the Minority Thought Pattern.

    HolyCoast.com 2009

  • Then I don't need a screen, just a gestural/voice/eye-movement UI like we saw in Minority Report.

    MIND MELD: The Apple iPad: Sizzle or Fizzle? 2010

  • I'm not suggesting that he should have been arrested before he committed a crime (like in Minority Report) and I sincerely doubt that even had someone tried to get him to climb down would have had any impact, but perhaps it might do well to remember that just standing by and letting this kind of madness percolate isn't an exercise in democracy or freedom of speech; it's enabling the madness.

    Not Alone 2009

  • "Other than letting some of you live out your fantasy of looking as cool as Tom Cruise in 'Minority Report' it can really let you connect as a sixth sense device with whatever is in front of you," said MIT researcher Patty Maes.

    Friday! ultra_lilac 2009

  • You all remember the cool 'gesture' interface Tom Cruise uses in Minority Report, but if you don't, here's a (very) brief clip showing it:

    Minority Report Interface Prototype 2008

  • Until we get 'paper', like the USA Today shown in Minority Report, I don't see ebooks going anywhere fast.

    Is the Future of Reading Ebooks and Cell Phones? 2008

  • You all remember the cool 'gesture' interface Tom Cruise uses in Minority Report, but if you don't, here's a (very) brief clip showing it:

    December 2008 2008

  • The meeting during the Senate Republican caucus's weekly lunch was Obama's idea -- he called Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week to ask if he could attend.

    Obama, GOP adversaries to meet in closed-door session 2010

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