Sales of "unified communications" systems like Internet Protocol-based corporate phone networks, where Cisco competes with companies like Avaya and Nortel Networks, which has hooked up with Microsoft increased 38% year-over-year.
The thinking behind that, Mr. Englebright said, is that birds are not likely to mistake jig heads, which have hooks and are brightly painted, for the pebbles he said they eat to grind their food.
It's also a sly code for the stage at which publishers have hooked enough users to begin charging regular fees for their online content.
The Video Transfer device will auto-sense which device you have hooked up and select the appropriate bitrates.
A little lower, on the right-hand side of her abdomen, you see a hole and a permanently implanted tube through which she has hooked herself up to peritoneal-dialysis equipment every night for the past five years, to flush out the toxins that her ruined kidneys cannot.
It's the bitchy hip-hop soap saga which has Michelle Obama hooked and left even Twitter shocked by its lurid dialogue.
The last time writer had heard that music was 20 years ago, over the high-school public-address system, which had been hooked up to let the offstage performers follow the action from the greenroom.
In raising the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, Janet Yellen and her colleagues at the Federal Reserve signaled that, in their view, the U.S. economy, which has been hooked up to a monetary life-support machine since December, 2008, is now strong enough to withstand slightly higher borrowing costs.
Law firms like Dentons, which has recently hooked up with Dacheng ― an influential Chinese law firm ― provide convenient, velvet glove cover for monetized pitchmen like the turncoat Dean.
A sloth, which eats leaves from trees, has hooked claws like a clothes hanger to latch onto branches, and snakes, whose ancestors had them, have no legs, but instead an extremely long, flexible backbone for sinuous slithering".
