Word: centricity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...completed a pre-trial diversion program; the principal pleaded not guilty and his trial is pending. The girl, meanwhile, has since attempted suicide.) Heaped on top of Northwestern's chronic academic failures, the case was widely viewed as yet another example of a high school mimicking the warped, football-centric priorities for which many U.S. colleges have long been criticized...
...proves that he’s as versatile as anyone else in the couture game. Kelly’s bold, bordering-on-tacky accessorizing is equally impressive. Flamboyant diamond studs, several massive pairs of sunglasses, and an enormous cigar nicely echo Kelly’s larger-than-life, tabloid-centric lifestyle. For all of its flashy extravagance, the video for “All the Above” isn’t tailored to hide the song’s more unsightly aspects. If only it were. —Katherine L. Miller
...foreign universities' setting up shop in India. If successful, it would become the first American university to offer graduate degrees identical to those it awards to students in Atlanta. It hopes to open a campus in Hyderabad in 2009. "No school in America can afford to be U.S.-centric these days. We need our students to understand how things work in Asia," says Kellogg dean Dipak Jain...
...developing economies like Mexico, Brazil and China, where it is doing well, than to mature markets like the U.S. and Japan, where it isn't. In the U.S., same-store sales increases are bumping along at 1% to 2% a month, while rival Target, the fashion-forward, design-centric glamour girl of discounting, runs up 2% to 4% monthly increases. Wall Street complains that Wal-Mart spends too much money opening the same old big boxes, so much so that Wal-Mart announced it will cut store growth and even trim store size. "You do more and more...
...Both regions are headed by locals, which will give the company more political clout in the sometimes contentious battles for store locations. The store-management structure has been similarly overhauled to emphasize a local touch in marketing and human resources. "It's not that it was too much Bentonville-centric," Castro-Wright says a tad defensively. "That was the strength of the company. But with our growth far away from the center, our model needed to be changed...