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...they each swarm the Faculty Club and posh hotels in the Square, lure you with free key chains and fresh caviar and sell you a life "leading to results" and a career path that you can "build on your own." You spend two years of your life in the hectic metropolis that is Manhattan behind a spreadsheet 12 hours a day, with the hope of "turbo-charging" your career...
...Says Tapan Munroe, an economics professor at the University of San Francisco, who has his own consulting firm: "We're talking about product life cycles of two to three years or even less. We're talking about industry life cycles of less than a decade." Newman notes that this hectic pace poses "a massive challenge for people with existing successful businesses," whose "natural tendency is to focus on what has made the business successful." They are vulnerable to competition from "upstarts" who "have the advantage of starting today at the state of the art" and have nothing to lose...
...Anya was brilliant today," Caples said. "It was messy, it was hectic, and everyone was in there in front of the goal. On those corners, we were caught standing around, I would even say spectating, and for us the challenge is to stay mentally focused and cut down the length of those kind of lapses...
...same as they did last year. And why not? The school is more than 1,000 years old. The academic and athletic competitions among the four Hogwarts residence houses--Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw--remain as spirited as before. All the students are still mad about Quidditch, a hectic sport involving six goals, four moving balls and two seven-member teams careering 50 ft. or more above ground on flying broomsticks. Harry is the star player for the Gryffindor squad...
Faculty members and students say theyappreciate the individual attention that Westaffords his colleagues and admirers. Despite hisnational prominence and hectic schedule, they say,he truly cares about the individuals he teaches...