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Much of the Big Three's luxury lag has to do with changing consumer tastes. The high-end market has detoured dramatically from the posh, living-room-on-wheels tradition of Cadillacs and Lincolns that once defined upper-middle-class status. Today's luxury buyers, guided by the Information Age, are less extravagant, more practical and technologically sharper. "The status symbol used to be 'I've got money,'" says Jim Press, general manager of Toyota Motor Sales USA. "But here in the late 1990s, it's 'I've got good taste.' The days of conspicuous consumption are gone...
Regardless of where Home might be in terms of authentic time zones, most visitors will perceive a distinct sense of jet lag upon arrival at Home. According to local custom, most natives of Home rise early in the morning-often to attend to native rituals and folkways such as "school" or "work"-and can often be spotted going to sleep at mid-night, or even earlier. Napping, while common in industrialized nations like our own native land, is considered primitive and uncultivated behavior. While the napping in reality viewed as a gross indulgence and will weaken their status among...
...exactly midnight, when my ID both expired and made me legal. It was important for the same reason that watching the World Series as it happens--and not on video the next day--is important. These are livings that lose something in time lag. It is not that they lose their suspense or mystery. And it is not that the anticipation of their retelling many years from now demands an anecdotal "what I was doing as I turned 21." These times are special because they are urgent. They confound the order of life by acting like petulant children. They demand...
...case of the Globe, The Journal or The Times, the logistical hassles are compounded by the need to coordinate with the local distributors of these papers. Crimson executives are all aware that a problem exists, and point to an unacceptably long lag time between new orders being placed and increased numbers of copies being delivered to The Crimson by the distributors. "We are just not getting enough national newspapers," says Nancy S. Chu '00, another circulation manager at The Crimson. "We sat down with representatives from The Globe and The New York Times last week, and told them we were...
...Review "tries to be as professional a magazine as possible, and one of the major ways we lag behind other journals is not having presence on the Web," Weinrib explained...