Word: fronting
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...Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer's results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into a microphone, and announced the result to classmates, family...
...supply free juice to lots of TV shows, movies and red-carpet events, the company is willing to pay to be in situations only if they highlight its core brand messages of health and luxury. "We wouldn't pay a lot of money if it's just sitting in front of Simon Cowell," said senior vice president of marketing Diane Kuyoomjian. I was feeling pretty healthy and luxurious until she told me, as an example, that the company turned down a scene in a movie in which the Pom Wonderful bottle would have been used as a bong. When...
...another front, data from the states shows that four now have unemployment rates above 10% and some have recorded joblessness well in excess of 9%. (What Sells in a Recession: Canned Goods and Condoms...
Instead of being able to get out in front of problems like unemployment, foreclosures, and the faltering banking and insurance industries, the government is falling inexorably behind. The remaining question is whether there is any chance at all that it can catch up, even a little...
...Japan, there's a clear recognition of the economic link between feeling safe and feeling confident. In a March 7 interview with TIME in Tokyo, Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and the front runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister (if he can avoid the fallout from a scandal over political fundraising), said "giving a sense of security to the population" was key to economic recovery. Ozawa argues that only if families feel that their basic needs have been taken care of - needs like health care and provision for retirement - will they...