Word: developable
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Treating our personalities as products reflects an increasingly competitive society in which the best way to stand out is to develop an engaging--and easily defined--image. Companies and celebrities have been doing it for years. Now it's the average guy's turn. "For a long time, parents discouraged their children from worrying about what others think. They didn't realize how shortsighted and stupid that was," says Mark Leary, a social psychology professor at Duke University who studies impression management. "We need other people to think well...
...they can be packaged in a way that could help me get a new job. "We could show the diversity of your work," he says. "We would perhaps give you a tagline: 'Curious about Everything. Passionate about Writing'" for my résumé and for a personal website I would develop...
...clearly meant as a signal to Tehran that its neighbors are prepared to move aggressively to prevent it from obtaining the parts and materials necessary to advance its uranium enrichment process - a process the U.S. and many of its allies believe, but Iran denies, is ultimately intended to develop nuclear weapons...
...constituents to, quite simply, be the best that it can be. But Harvard is prominently situated, in a way that few institutions are, to effect a tremendous amount of social good. The College, which attracts many of the most talented high school graduates in the world, can develop the ethical, well-informed global citizens who will lead the world through the next century. The tremendous concentration of financial and intellectual resources, spread through Harvard’s schools, uniquely enables and activates scholars in ways that other institutions cannot...
...Abizaid, says one critic, also failed to develop a successful strategy of clearing an area, then holding it with troops, and then rebuilding its social and economic institutions. He believed that the rebuilding ought to be left to the Iraqis, but he never ensured that the foundation of that strategy - the Iraqi Security Forces - were up to the job, this critic contends...