Word: bandwagoners
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...alone in my recommendation. For one, 11 million people have downloaded the browser since its release. And I may very well be the last tech columnist in the world to jump on the Firefox-praise bandwagon (I’ve been using it myself for quite some time, mind you: I’ve just not been proselytizing). Over the past three months as the browser reached maturity and was officially released to the public, noted journalists at the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and hundreds of other well regarded publications have been singing the praises of Mozilla?...
...problem that this country faces it that the longer it waits to get on the bandwagon, the harder and more costly it will be to do so. The U.S. remains the world’s largest and most powerful economy, but has steadfastly swum against the current under the Bush administration. With declining confidence in the U.S. dollar and the distinct possibility that the world is no longer going to subsidize U.S. spending by buying its government debt, the Bush administration is going to have to find new ways to keep the economy running. Four years of profligate spending seems...
...Even China, Asia's perennial pop-culture laggard, has hopped on the bandwagon. The upcoming The Ghost Inside?at $600,000, the country's most expensive scary movie?transplants the single-mom-in-a-creepy-apartment formula to an impersonal, rapidly modernizing mainland city. Despite the tight budget, its cast includes Beijing heartthrob Liu Ye and Taiwanese TV-drama princess Barbie Hsu. For now, though, the hotbed of Asian dread remains Japan, where Ichise presides over his assembly line of scares. In the next two years he plans to release at least four more Japanese ghost movies, including one each...
...Crimson at the game this year. Only two months at Harvard changed three years of cheering for Yale at The Game, longer than most Yale juniors. Some might say I have betrayed my loyalties. Sure, I am a poser. I jumped on the bandwagon, but it is better than rooting for a losing team year after year in the opposition’s home...
...felt a full part of the Brookline or Boston communities. Though I had immersed myself in its athletic teams, student government, local hospitals and other college application-building exploits, I wasn’t a real Bostonian among my new friends till I jumped on the Beantown sports bandwagon...