Still, the Long Telegram is a reliable window into Mr. Kennan's personal frustration at Washington.
Even so, this is a moment in which the trivial is a reliable window onto the larger shape of things.
Adds Franke in a statement: "Searching for a reliable window cleaner or painter has traditionally been an inconvenient and frustrating task.
This long plasma operation imposes the improvement of diagnostic systems and the design of thermally resistant in-vessel components with reliable window assemblies.
Everyone has sex except nuns and rollerbladers and outward appearances aren't always a reliable window into a person's intimate preferences.
For people unable to communicate due to declining cognitive functioning, such as people who suffer AAd, SRM may be a window (perhaps the only known reliable window) into inner emotional states and preferences.
It's more reliable than Windows 98, more flexible than Windows Me and a lot more fun than Windows 2000.
Linux is also speedier and more reliable than Windows, say the techies at St . Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, an IBM customer, which last year switched some servers from Windows to Linux.
And I.B.M., the Bowen team concluded, should push Linux as the operating system of choice for the Internet -- more robust and reliable than Windows NT and eventually overtaking Solaris, Sun's flavor of Unix, as the industry standard for Unix.
Hardware guys choose Linux because it's faster and more reliable than Windows (some say) and is easily customized.
