In the age of air travel and instantaneous information, the backyard advantage may be disputed.

During the first year of the millennium, AAI endeavours to make its operations more transparent and also make available the instantaneous information to customers by deploying state-of-art Information Technology.

With satellites providing instantaneous information and bombs and missiles able to strike from afar, massing troops or seizing high ground simply makes a riper target for jets flying thousands of feet overhead.

- Real estate offices in California provide potential buyers with instantaneous information about available housing, financial terms, ownership history.

Also named is the Airline Tariff Publishing Company, the airlines' jointly owned computer network, which provides instantaneous information about the tens of thousands of changes in domestic air fares that are made each day.

Because pilots need instantaneous information during landing, a windsock is also kept in view of the runway.

Here the ultimate effect is individualistic and - living as we do in this era of instantaneous information, of Jerry Springer and Monica Lewinsky - refreshing.

In the new approach, each plant would have nearly instantaneous information about all the other plants and power lines in its extended neighborhood.

Hillary Clinton has also expressed concern about the "accessibility and instantaneous information on the computer.

In a time when instantaneous and free-flowing information is the norm, these sort of whispers are an insult to fair and public disclosure.