Word: concepting
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...should expand our concept of zoning from land to sea. Instead of an ocean free-for-all, we should designate some areas for fishing only with traps and hooks and line, and others as wildlife sanctuaries. As we've seen with once rich cod grounds, if we don't declare some areas closed by foresight, they will declare themselves closed by collapse. The map of the land has many colors, while in most minds the sea is still the blank space between continents. Let's start coloring in that blue expanse and map a more sensible future...
...bring up my Nana to talk about April, or rather, April as Gay Pride Month. Margaret probably would never associate herself with the concept--at least not before last year. One of her grandsons shared a house with another young man; that made sense to Margaret because he was an unmarried twenty-something, and it made sense that he wouldn't tell his grandmother anything more. But last summer, when the grandson and his partner decided to adopt a child, it was time someone spilled the beans...
...concept behind "Big Brother" parallels "Survivor". Five men and five women will be locked in a house with, you guessed it, no contact with the outside world (save the occasional vocal communication with "Big Brother" himself). Every moment in the house is recorded by 28 cameras (all equipped with night vision) and 60 microphones. Not even the shower is safe...
...concept behind these shows is not entirely new. MTV scored success with "The Real World" in the early '90's. This evolved into "Road Rules," another show that struck a chord with the key youth demographic. But "Survivor" and "Big Brother" go much further with their voyeuristic overtones. While "The Real World" taped just about everything that went on with the participants did, the conditions were nowhere near as severe as those of the eye network's new shows. The Real-World-ers interacted with the outside world as normal people would; they just had cameras following them around...
Venture capital is certainly not a novel concept for HMC. According to Meyer, Harvard first put money into venture capital in 1978, the year Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor. HMC has set the 15 percent goal for private equity in1992...