Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...someone has to hide their identity for being gay?” Slack asked. Azkaban proved that “prison torture is not okay,” he said, while the Daily Prophet’s poor coverage of Voldemort’s return was likened to the mainstream media’s failure to cover the early stages of the Darfur genocide...
...growing at a phenomenal rate, Wikipedia has over five million entries and users are posting their video commentary along with exploding Diet Coke/Mentos videos. Yet message boards devoted to financial information, as well as a myriad of other topics, continue to thrive - even in a time when most mainstream online participation is user reviews and blog commentary. And as we've seen with many Web 2.0 applications, anonymity, a key feature of message board postings, can call into question the veracity and motive of the boards' content...
Fueling the competition further are disgruntled mainstream investment funds, which have been egging on PE firms to deal jump. Some have become quite vocal and even threatened to vote their shares against a deal unless a bidder kicked in more money. One such firm is Cohen & Steers Inc., a nonactivist real estate investor, which publicly criticized Blackstone's original takeover offer for Equity Office as being ridiculously low. The firm's comments helped trigger the bidding war that ensued...
...High-Definition adoption becomes mainstream over the next few years, how does Nintendo plan to compete in this new market? -Wes Schiel, Atlanta, GeorgiaClearly people are adopting HD and I think over time that will be something we will start to look at. We felt that with this generation, what was far more important was making a hardware system that was approachable-something people could look at and say, 'I want this in my home. It is small, quiet and intuitive and I know how to use it.' As HD adoption rates increase, it is likely that we may start...
...need to drive this idea out of the mainstream, because it is not accurate,” Nyhan said...