Word: cards
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...believe Christmas cards are significant, right? Yes. One of the earliest studies that Karen did was about Christmas cards. Who sends them? Why do they send them? She did a study showing that we send cards mostly to our consequential strangers - the service providers, the plumber, people we know from church or school or other venues, where you don't really know them that well, but you appreciate them. Or people you'd like to get to know better. So in a way, looking at your Christmas-card list, you can see beyond the intimate circle. Who you send Christmas...
When iconic Annenberg card-swiper Domna Antoniou took an early retirement package in the midst of a budgetary crackdown last spring there was an outpouring of appreciation for the 22-year Harvard University Dining Services veteran. But when budget cuts and a glimpse of greener kitchens caused former Executive Chef of Residential Dining, Larry R. Kessel, to leave Harvard in August, his departure passed nearly unnoticed by students...
...handing annulled private broadcast permits to state or state-supporter media instead of to the kind of unbiased outlets that his fiercely polarized society needs. Argentina's increasingly unpopular Fernández, whose Peronist Party lost its majority in recent congressional elections, is also playing the anti-monopoly card - especially against her arch foe, the Clarín media conglomerate, whose directors she calls "multimedia generals" comparable to the right-wing military generals who ousted then President Isabel Perón in 1976. Fernández's new law would allow private media only a third of all broadcast licenses...
...former East German communists and West German leftists who could not stomach the reformism of Schröder when he led the SPD. In some regional elections in former East Germany, Die Linke has moved ahead of the Social Democrats. (Read: "Busting Out: German Pol Plays the Cleavage Card...
...references that will make no sense to the bright-eyed students of the incoming class. It's a kind of time travel, to remind us how far we've come. This year's freshmen were typically born in 1991. That means, the authors explain, they have never used a card catalog to find a book; salsa has always outsold ketchup; women have always outnumbered men in college. There has always been blue Jell...