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Dictionaries are witnesses.
They present observations on what English is like in different places. This one was particularly good at assembling witnesses from different places. Zulu says its Zulu TV will provide online broadcast services to organizations and companies that want to deliver a message to an online audience. Although some hotels have offered in-room printers to business travelers for several years, the Hyatt hotel chain is making a major commitment to that idea by announcing plans to put inkjet printers in 5,200 rooms in 90 hotels by the end of this year. Harris said that by that time it had already negotiated contracts to develop millions of dollars worth of products based on the Newton.