Word: affectations
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Although you'd think that eBay's flagship marketplace business, a site where people go to buy and sell stuff, would flourish in a downturn, it has stopped growing. It's still unclear how badly the credit crisis and buying slowdown will affect an e-commerce value site like eBay, which does half its business outside the U.S. During the 2001 recession, eBay's marketplace continued to thrive because of its Web dominance and discounted goods. Whitman at the time even crowed that "eBay is to some extent recession-proof...
...There was little change in either team’s lineup in the game’s final periods, despite the fact that both Kenyi and Lin entered extra time with four fouls each, one short of expulsion. The toil of long minutes seemed to affect the players, as each team missed shots in its first two possessions of the second overtime. It wasn’t until Huskies junior Manny Adako banked in a jumper that more points were tallied, as Northeastern went up, 68-66, with 2:40 to play in the period...
...larger theme in Gladwell’s new book “Outliers.” In the book, Gladwell argues that this crash of a flight from Colombia to New York, which resulted in 73 deaths, was caused, at least in part, by how cultural differences affect the way people act—even the way some fly planes. Colombians have a “high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian...
...addition to the social consequences that low enrollments have for students, they also affect teachers’ experiences. Fowler-Finn said that some middle schools are so small that there are sometimes not enough students to warrant a full-time staff member for a specific subject, discouraging some of those part-time teachers from staying for long...
...they made the decision they made. That’s the most scary part for people going through the process.”James and Wong are also targeting issues on a community-wide—and even global—level.“We are trying to affect not just what happens in the Harvard bubble but also Cambridge, Boston, and the world,” James says.In so doing, the pair hopes to foster in students a sense of social consciousness and community involvement.“Our student body has never gotten together to say anything...