Word: customizers
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...there choco-fatigue? About 70% of the women polled in one survey wish the custom of doling out giri-choco to their male bosses and colleagues would just end. Moreover, according to one poll, 58% felt that Cupid brought the blues, not because of a lack of dates but because of all the preparation involved. That would include, for example, standing in line for half an hour in the freezing cold to get their hands on that $55 box of four chocolate bonbons. Morinaga, a leading chocolate maker, has research showing that an increasing number of women in their...
...reason and logic lofted Harvardian minds to new heights, the school decided to do away with antiquated methods of discipline. Edward Holyoke, class of 1690 and president from 1737-1769, ended the custom of flogging students. More importantly, Holyoke was instrumental in a movement towards valuing merit over social class, planting the seeds of an egalitarian tradition that the University would strive to expand throughout its history...
...Citizen Bike launched just over a year and a half ago, selling foldables directly from its website at citizen citizenbike.com with models starting at $179. "Our philosophy is affordability," says company president Avery Pack. Bike Friday, a folding-bike manufacturer since 1991, offers a more boutique product, with custom-made bikes beginning at $995 and averaging $1,500. The company sells not price but agility and convenience, an idea it captures with a motto that all the mini-bike makers might claim: "Performance that Packs...
...when an older sister burns herself to death to escape an abusive marriage, Sanghera begins to realize the toll that custom and oppression are taking on Asian women. While raising children alone and pursuing a college degree on virtually no money, she launches Karma Nirvana (from Sanskrit words connoting action and enlightenment) in a spare room at a Derby women's shelter...
...time the competition starts on Jan. 23, Kaysen will have cooked his way through hundreds of pounds of butter and cream, poultry, fish and vegetables. He will also have spent more than $150,000 on equipment like custom-made serving platters and a $22,000 combination steamer--convection oven he will use in the kitchen stadium where the competition takes place, coaches to help him refine his routine and several trips to France to charm the best purveyors of meat, fish and produce so that he will get the quality he needs when he goes to buy ingredients...