Word: centricity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...asia's 1997 economic crisis painfully demonstrated, the region's export-centric growth model is not without pitfalls. While critical lessons have been learned from that wrenching period, Asia has lingering vulnerabilities. Two soft spots are likely to prove especially vexing: the region's dependence upon mainland China and the policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve. A looming slowdown in China's economy will undermine Asia's newest source of external demand, whereas the pending normalization of U.S. interest rates could convince American consumers, the region's oldest and most reliable source of external demand, to cut back on spending...
...retain control of the company that they launched when they were getting their PhDs at Stanford, in 1997. They will still own about a third of the corporation and there will be two tiers of stock so that not all votes are created equal. That said, their engineer-centric company will be under extraordinary pressure to grow at a pace that can warrant its sky-high valuation, and any missteps, such as its recent release of G-mail, which rankled privacy zealots, will probably not be greeted joyfully on Wall Street...
...more Ivy-centric morsel of madness, let’s consider the fact that the Ancient Eight is the only conference in America that doesn’t have a postseason basketball tournament...
...know these types. But what I realized was more astonishing about section-centric conversations, rather than the inevitable appearance of these nameless prototypical characters, is the number of real-life acquaintances that seem to pop up again and again. Section is, after all, a random conglomerate of students culled from different places who share only a free time slot on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. in common, and yet it isn’t just the stereotypes that remain a constant from one person’s section rollcall to the next. Sure, I don’t really know that...
...stories, weary of the mirth which greets my distinctive idiom during editors’ meetings, and most of all, utterly fatigued from people asking me if Fosters really is Australian for beer (um, no), the time has come for a comprehensive guide to genuine Australian slang with an Amelia-centric twang...