Word: developed
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Part of his creed was that purifying society required purifying one's own soul. "The more you develop nonviolence in your own being, the more infectious it becomes." Or, more pithily: "We must become the change we seek...
...government decided to get out of the Internet business and allow private companies to step in and develop it. Bezos recalls, "I'm sitting there thinking we can be a complete first mover in e-commerce." He researched mail-order companies, figuring that things that sold well by mail would do well online. He made a list of the Top 20 mail-order products and looked for where he could create "the most value for customers." Value, in his equation, would be something customers craved: selection, say, or convenience or low prices. "Unless you could create something with a huge...
...February 1996 in which he laid out a philosophy that still guides eBay: that people are basically good, that they make mistakes, and that they should be given the benefit of the doubt. "I was afraid it would turn into just a gripe forum, but as I watched it develop, I was amazed to realize that people enjoy giving praise." In fact the feedback eBayers posted about one another was overwhelmingly positive...
...were to devote an equal amount of brainpower to publicizing the AIDS epidemic. They might come up with ways to make drugs more available to impoverished Africans or to build support in Congress for California Democrat Barbara C. Lee's proposal for an anti-AIDS "Marshall Plan." They might develop strategies for changing the promiscuous sexual behavior that allows the disease to spread so rapidly. At the very least, they could make sure that the world does not turn its back on the unfolding tragedy. To stand by silently would...
Emerging organizations such as HAPA are definitely a step in the right direction. Hopefully, more student organizations like it will develop sometime in the near future and fill a long-empty void in the College. Permitting applicants to identify with more than one racial group, instead of the "other" category, is perhaps the first step the University can take to create a more welcoming atmosphere for multiracial and biracial students. Students need to be encouraged to embrace all the separate and beautiful components of their heritage, instead of being subtly yet forcibly limited to just...