Word: centricity
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...President Bush’s threat—you’re either with us or against us in the war on terror—by rewarding those who choose to side with us. And it will require a fortitude and commitment that extend far beyond the usual election-centric time horizons of American policy, for nothing would anger our potential allies more than if we left hospitals and bridges and courthouses incomplete when a new president was elected...
...hearts and minds back in the spring, when a recession was constantly threatening to swoop down and savage our livestock. But it?s become sort of the default conventional wisdom that consumers? walletary outlook, while probably past its peak, is on the gentlest of downward slopes - and that business-centric numbers like inventory and production are the other shoe worth watching...
...Ford Motor Co., last year's Firestone-tire crisis created a legal pileup that could wreck the company's consumer-centric strategy. Ford still faces hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling at least $590 million on behalf of the victims of rollovers of Firestone-equipped sport-utility vehicles, most of which involved the wildly popular Ford Explorer. According to federal data, 174 people have died and more than 700 have been injured in accidents stemming from tread separations and other problems linked to the 6.5 million 15-in. SUV tires that Firestone recalled last August...
...Naughty Bits," by Roberta Gregory Roberta Gregory's "Naughty Bits" gets props as the only unabashedly female-centric comic currently in existence. Its complex heroine, Midge, flaunts the conventions of what women are allowed to do in comics and other pop-culture media. Midge, aka Bitchy Bitch, is fast approaching 40, hates her pointless desk job, uses "marital aids" without being married, gets very angry very quickly, judges people, and seems to menstruate much more than ordinary. Still, her desire for love and satisfaction make her sympathetic. She has acquired a large enough fan base that...
...what a permanent house-centric college might look like, one only needs to look at Yale's college system. There, students are a part of their diverse residential community from the beginning of their first-years year. The social results of this college focus could be seen by anyone who attended the Harvard-Yale game. It was impressive seeing the twelve college flags waving in the student section, hearing Yale singing their fight song in unity and wading among the hundreds of Yale students and alumni who were attending their college tailgates at the Harvard Business School parking...