Word: concepting
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...trouble started several weeks back when Dreamtime reps--led by CEO Bill Foster--made the rounds in Hollywood for a series of high-level pitch meetings. If there's one thing that defines the way entertainment-industry suits conduct business, it's the pitch meeting, where high-concept ideas (think Die Hard meets Sense and Sensibility) get tossed about, directors' names are freely floated, and stars are vaguely said to be "attached." Into this fantasy factory stepped Foster--who previously worked as a furniture maker, a graphic designer and a vice president at Excite.com before striking...
...urban art market whose aesthetic standards are broadcast from a corner office in Times Square, there would appear to be little room for any concept of nature or the natural sublime. Indeed, the genre of the traditional landscape, once the dominant expression of rugged American culture, seems to have drifted out of our cultural view...
...weakest and least representative piece-Koo Jeong-a's "Oslo," a miniature sand-dune topography made of aspirin filings-is, ironically, the one selected for the cover of the catalogue. In an otherwise pithy exhibit, this oblique and banal concept piece is a huge misstep. (The curators appear equally confused, commenting on it only with the flustered remark that it "raises questions about the fundamental idea of landscape...
...money might flow to states that took action to reduce deforestation. By one calculation, if Acre would commit to cutting in half the expected deforestation along a 500-km stretch of BR-364, the state might ultimately gain $37 million a year from the sale of greenhouse credits. The concept is risky because it might perversely encourage governments to launch development projects in the hope of selling credits to stop their work. Moreover, the Brazilian federal government has not yet embraced the concept because it contains implications that federal attempts to control deforestation have failed. But the idea has merit...
Fifth and finally, such a partial privatization of Social Security would be regressive. Current Social Security benefits provide higher returns to lower-income individuals; that would not be the case in individual accounts. Placing money in private accounts would undermine the concept of a system for common provision. So far, the fears of Social Security shortfall have been used as a club to advance the cause of privatization as a way of "doing something" about the crisis; however, private accounts should appeal only to those who, like Barro, favor them for ideological and not economic reasons...