Word: contentment
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...needs the tremendous reach of Yahoo, which is bigger than any other rival. Microsoft could swiftly sweeten its deal for Yahoo, with the extra resources from News Corp. Yahoo will likely enjoy a higher purchase price, which will satisfy its investors. Plus, Microsoft can then integrate Yahoo search and content into News Corp.'s MySpace (which lacks a built-in Internet search feature), making it a more serious threat to Facebook...
...visited Avery Brewing. While located in some kind of industrial park, it has a lovely, Napa-like tasting room. Avery makes some of the most extreme beers in the Denver area: with a high cost (some are $10 for a 12-oz. [40 mL] bottle), a high alcohol content (as much as 18%) and a high IBU count (more than 100, which is a whole lot when you consider that Budweiser's is 8.5). "We make beer for weirdos," explains president Adam Avery. For dinner, we went to the Kitchen, a local organic restaurant, where our waiter knew an awful...
...Changes in popular opinion are not only a matter of changing minds: they require communicating to society at large that minds are being changed. But much of the content of our social consciousness has nothing to do with laws or policy: the acceptability of subtle prejudices, the terms of political debate, or what subjects of public conversation are taboo—these cannot be legislated. How then do we know when opinions are changing...
...broader way, the movie played the role of candid dinner party guest in the social dialogue over anti-Semitism in the 1940s. Indeed, in changing our attitudes about issues like race, religion, and sexuality—and in changing the content of our everyday political and social dialogue—popular culture consistently plays the part of emperor’s boy, one loud enough for all of us to hear...
...study, only 37 percent of those intending to go into family care ended up in family practice. Those who defected were more likely than those rejecting other specialties to quote a lack of prestige, anxiety over mastering a wide breadth of knowledge, and paradoxically, a low academic content as the reasons for their change in focus...