IBM has been working on several supply chain uses cases, including diamond tracking and food supply protection.
Internal diamond-tracking systems in countries like Guinea, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo are so poor there's no telling where the diamonds they export originate.
Or race, particularly when, if belatedly and begrudgingly, baseball diamonds, track-and-field stadiums and boxing rings were among the few places where people of color were actually allowed to win.
In most places, youth sports organizations (YSOs) don't own their own facilities; they use taxpayer-funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts instead.
Merrill hopes that Holdrs will prove to be a potent rival to mutual funds, unit investment trusts and exchange-traded funds, or E.T.F.'s, like the Diamonds that track the Dow Jones industrials.
This is a world away, in terms of allusion and metaphor, from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, a track that clubs you over the head with its obvious symbolism.
The array of cultures and sounds is a theme throughout Oddisee's layered arrangements and moody composition on the Diamond District tracks, and Oddisee openly aspires to the ranks of the late J Dilla, the innovative and influential DJ/emcee.
If there's one menswear label from the week that's poised to capitalize on the current trend, it's Reid, whose collection included super-slouchy wide-wale corduroy trousers and trench coats, diamond-quilted track pants and dinner jackets and shearling panel vests.
Diamonds (91) tracks the Dow Jones industrial average; Spyders (98) gives you the S&P 500.
Diamond describes the track as an emotional journey focusing on the moments when someone's feelings for you have changed.
I wore out the grooves of Diamond Dogs, particularly track #6: "Rebel, Rebel," absorbing every word as only a teenager can, though it was primarily the opening that consumed me: "You've got your mother in a whirl.
