Word: adrift
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...company's focus was adrift. It had dabbled in creating content, a strategy it later cut back on, and had fallen further behind Google in generating revenue from its huge audience. Last November an agent provocateur emerged in Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice president, whose leaked memo became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. He argued passionately that Yahoo! was wasting its talent by distributing its resources like peanut butter on a widening slice of bread. "The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular," Garlinghouse wrote. "I hate...
...next year, and there are even provisional plans for programs in Spanish. By cable and satellite, France 24 claims to reach 190 million households in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as viewers in Washington, D.C., and New York. For the rest of the world, otherwise adrift in a sea of what the French call "le m?dia anglo-saxon," it's available via the Internet...
Fortunately, the Center’s director, Susan Marine, understands that the issue is a little more complex than that; her response, however, has been to reject the goal of effecting social change at all, leaving the organization adrift. The Center plans some helpful projects for next term, but currently features such weekly domestic delights as two hours of knitting circles, one hour of “crafts,” and possible cooking classes soon to come from the Conservative Women’s Forum. Marine speaks of an “evolving” Women?...
...just that it has not gone the way he planned. We know that because we have been following him now for 20 years, since he first turned up in 1986 in The Sportswriter, Richard Ford's third novel. Back then he was a decent, meditative but somewhat adrift 38-year-old, given to serene reflections that eventually sounded like the defenses of a man whose wife has left him, whose son has died and who does not want to know how wounded he is. In 1995 Ford revisited Bascombe in Independence Day. By that time in real estate sales...
...extraordinarily young soccer team—consisting of thirteen freshman, six sophomores, and a single senior—was suddenly left adrift without a coach...