Word: concepting
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...writers to bear the title has been both white and male. Whose generation are they speaking for, exactly? "When people say generation, they're usually not including, say, people who live in Africa, Asia and people without bank accounts," Coupland says tartly. "It's an exclusionary and delusional concept...
There is plenty of room for a new concept in U.S. dental care: 67% of dental practices in the U.S. are still run as traditional solo practices, according to Roger Levin, an industry management consultant in Owings Mills, Md. But Vital Dent will have to overcome more than just convention to find its way in the U.S. The new implant procedures Colman touts are not exclusive to the company. Vital Dent's prices, although below those of high-end dentists, are not much lower than the typical rates in most major cities (and like many traditional dentists, Vital Dent doesn...
Throughout the novel, the protagonist Ahmad frequently admonishes his fellow human beings for “taking away” his faith. Updike explained that such a concept is “the assertion that all the world’s religions contradict much of what we see in the real world. People—even believers—don’t act as though they believe so much of the time...
...February, after six months of traditional physical therapy failed to cure his strained neck. Six weeks into acupuncture with Nolan, he is feeling much better. "I have no idea why it works," Dixon, 41, says, "but this problem is almost gone." Nolan attributes Dixon's symptoms to an Eastern concept known as a "cold-wind" condition and says the acupuncture treatment rebalances energies in his patient's body. That explanation may raise haughty eyebrows in the clinics and consulting rooms of mainstream medicine, but increasing numbers of Europeans are embracing alternative treatments such as acupuncture, chiropractic manipulation, homeopathy and osteopathy...
...every day, so he found shrimp that hold up in cold storage. A true summer roll would have mint, but that strong flavor turns off some people. "We had to make a hard decision as to whether or not we were going to stay that close to the traditional concept," he says. Okura left out the mint, and the shrimp aren't as plump as Gulf shrimp, but the crisp vegetables somehow still conjure up a summer roll's cool, fresh essence...