Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along the city's broad boulevards lined with exquisite edifices, waiters balancing silver trays of champagne and espresso cups bustle among outdoor tables set under tasseled awnings, tipped at just the right angle. One after the other appear countless fashionable boutiques selling Givenchy, Christian Dior or one of France's many other high-profile designers, perfumeries into which saunter ladies who would be at home in the pages of Vogue magazine and hair salons whose attendants dawdle at the door with an insouciance that Marlon Brando would envy. Even the chestnut trees on the elegant Champs-Elysees hang their branches...
Still, Scientific Learning will have to be boffo to win broad acceptance in a market marked by fierce competition, feuding theorists and frequent disdain for the profit motive. But the payoff for any company that can help kids overcome barriers to learning must be measured in more than dollars. "Boy, if you can increase the confidence of students in their own ability, you can affect a change in their lives," says Kleyn. Back in New Jersey, Nicole Davis might want to write a poem about that...
Call them what you will. The name game simply underscores the up-and-down nature of funds that invest in developing regions. Risk has rewards: emerging-markets funds are up an average of 32% this year, beating the Standard & Poor's 500 by a factor of three. No broad area of stock investing has paid off bigger in the first half...
...saying to you tonight that a winning strategy must have a broad base of tenant support and must be coordinated state wide," he said...
...look forward to benefiting immensely from his leadership and technical skills, from his deep knowledge of outdoor programs in schools and colleges and from his broad perspectives on program content and development," Nathans wrote in an e-mail...