Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with these "monoline" companies. The banks aren't seeking gargantuan size in order to strangle any one market, but simply to keep up in all of them. The battle to be waged in the marketplace is whether consumers prefer one-stop shopping, or picking and choosing among "best of breed." That is a choice consumers should be allowed to make. To the extent that banks succeed in entering a wide range of markets, financial services will become more competitive, not less...
Richard Yan is not merely a new breed of mainland Chinese businessman--he's a member of the very first class, and one of its rising stars. His Richina Group, which didn't exist four years ago, has revenues of $270 million and 1,850 employees making leather, running a jazzy Beijing aquarium and turning out computer magazines. Yan, 34, is the driving force, and his megawattage borders on the nuclear. He works 100-hour weeks, flies only coach on business trips and flops on friends' couches to cut expenses...
While the younger breed wears striped clothing effortlessly, those of us who have been sporting plaid fashions since the early '90s may find the switch to stripes a tough transition to make. We're used to the earnest complexity of the tartan and the understated intricacy of black-watch. It's not easy to leave behind the gridded blues, greens, reds and yellows for the linear turquoise and black...
...also serious about analyzing all of Hall's literary output, and she offers interesting discussions of Hall's poetry and short stories, the later and less successful novels, and the great early books. The latter are often overshadowed by the subsequent notoriety of The Well. For example, Adam's Breed, Hall's remarkable fourth novel, first rocketed her to the top of the bestseller lists and swept the English literary awards...
...there are some differences in the same-sexclassroom that can breed academic skill andconfidence, according to students. As Martineznotes, single-sex education provides inspiringrole models for young women that are missing fromother secondary schools...