Word: conceptive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Students seemed to agree that the concept of the brunch itself showed how much progress has been made in the Middle East in recent years...
...owner, George Sarkis, said before he withdrew the proposal that there was a lot of "neighborhood opposition" to it; three days later, however, after he backed out, he said that it was not neighborhood opposition but a "business decision" because he did not believe in the "24-hour concept." In this confusing series of statements, we see one key player looming large: the Harvard Square Defense Fund. No, it's not a group that totes around guns to keep Harvard Square safe, although it might as well do so; it's a neighborhood organization that will do anything to keep...
Price competition is an alien concept to the handful of firms that dominate the cereal industry. "Their rivalry is more akin to the choreographed grunts of televised wrestling than a cutthroat duel to the death," says John Connor, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "The ultimate weapon, steep price cuts, is rarely used." That has kept profit margins high. Ronald Cotterill, director of the Food Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut, estimates that cereal firms pocket an average of 17% of their sales as operating income, vs. 7% to 8% for the food industry...
While the concept of a salon may be traditional, this particular one can only be described as "late century cyberpunk frat." Over by the patio is a slate-gray pool table perched on construction girders, and out on the lawn is a sensory-deprivation chamber. The garage is less a garage than a World Wide Web command post. Hiding among the overstuffed sofas and comic- book art in the living room are a video-game power glove, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and a Yoda mask. The dining room is dominated by a psychedelic poster from...
...production of The Nutcracker, make sure she watches her weight. Wetter says he sees an extraordinary number of bright young patients whose parents are paying for tutors in addition to private-school tuition to make sure their kids keep up in class--or get ahead. "We've lost the concept of well-rounded children because we're so focused on achievement," he says. "If a kid gets a B today, tomorrow...