Word: drives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Christmas shopping season, experts anticipate that stores will move up Black Friday, and perhaps begin their holiday marketing around Columbus Day. "Overall, I think you're going to see a lot of this on the retail front," says Blackshaw. "They're going to be looking for novel strategies to drive competitive advantage, even if they have to rethink the typical calendaring of events." In this depressed retail environment, however, can Santa deliver the goods...
...heavy consequences of CSAT scores drive the Korean high school education system into a frenzy—one those creepy parents on CollegeConfidential.com can’t even touch. High school students almost all attend “cram school” classes, where they’re taught material expressly for the CSAT. Even more serious parents send their children to boarding cram schools, where they study for the test from 7a.m. until midnight, and are banned from watching videos, the Internet, and having boyfriends/girlfriends...
...your butt. You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics. It's really simple, but it takes determination, discipline, drive. You can't quit...
...What They're Quitting in Saudi Arabia: In the first antismoking drive of its kind, a Riyadh-based charity is giving prospective grooms who complete a seven-day smoking-cessation course the chance to win an all-expenses-paid wedding in an Aug. 6 drawing. The campaign's slogan? "Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage...
...compound is thought to work by reducing the synaptic release of a neurotransmitter called glutamate. As Grant told me, glutamate is the communication chemical that "tells the brain, 'Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!' And the rest of the brain can be overwhelmed by this drive state." Reduce glutamate and you may reduce the drive state. Previous studies have suggested the supplement may also reduce urges to use cocaine and to gamble. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...