Word: darwinian
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...more prosaic technical and political discussion groups, meanwhile, have become so crowded with writers crying for attention that a Darwinian survival principle has started to prevail. "It's so competitive that you have to work on your style if you want to make any impact," says Jorn Barger, a software designer in Chicago. Good writing on the Net tends to be clear, vigorous, witty and above all brief. "The medium favors the terse," says Crawford Kilian, a writing teacher at Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Short paragraphs, bulleted lists and one-liners are the units of thought here...
...focus on teaching "approaches" has made its mark. Very specific courses on small time periods and narrow subject areas are common in the core. The logic is that an approach to history can be taught as well or perhaps better, in course on the Darwinian revolution as is can in a broad survey course...
...students scramble for jobs, OCS seems strained under the pressure and is currently unable to meet student needs. Since intersession, hordes of desperate undergraduates have been descending upon OCS, forced to engage in a bizarre Darwinian struggle for informational supremacy. Students must fight for their chance to peer inside the mystical OCS binders which contain precious contact names and job listings. Even Mary Fan Kain, OCS summer jobs counselor, has described the situation as "hectic...
Communism deconstructed itself. Capitalism has done something of the same thing to its work force, even while sleekening itself in a Darwinian way. In any case, a new order has in a few short years dismantled the crucial load- bearing traditions of work in America and abrogated its operative myth. In a time of surreal transition, America is working essentially without a social contract, or with one that is daily, deeply violated...
...Darwinian aspects of corporate culture are not necessarily incompatible with women's ways of thinking. Women are not a monolithic group. It is too easy to recite litanies of the systematic denial of opportunities and power and the importance of belonging to a sub-dominant group. This disguises the fact that some women are just not willing to make the necessary tradeoffs which are often required for a successful career...