Word: davenport
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...desert here is monotonously flat, rising only for escarpments and ridges a couple of hundred meters high?ribs off the ancient, eroded spines of the MacDonnell and Davenport Ranges. From horizon to horizon there is nothing but red earth, squat, pale-green mulga trees and dense mallee shrubs. And when night falls, the darkness is almost palpable...
...business book getting lots of attention examines the subject of...attention. "Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success," declare Thomas Davenport and John Beck, authors of The Attention Economy, just published by the Harvard Business Press. Organizations, they say, can suffer from "organizational ADD," an increased likelihood of missing key information when making decisions and a decreased ability to focus. By attention the authors mean both the ability to pay attention and the ability to attract it. While readers of Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor) will wince at the gimmicky ADD slogan...
AILING. CORINA MORARIU, 23, former No. 1 ranked women's doubles player and 1999 Wimbledon women's doubles champion with Lindsay Davenport; with a rare form of leukemia; in Florida. Doctors estimated that Morariu had been sick for months, even while playing the grueling WTA tour...
...Many faculty and staff complained that everything had to go through her and she wasn’t there enough,” Davenport said. “There was a lack of appreciation for deadlines in the department which I had hoped would improve but which was actually getting worse. The Carpenter Center needs a certain amount of advance publicity to guarantee attendance, and things were getting more and more last-minute...
...purchase order book would be lying behind the counter,” Davenport said. “Anybody could buy things and wouldn’t have to justify it until after the fact...