Word: malle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...need to live by stories that help us deal with tough realities. Idealism has a role to play - it can convince us that no matter how misshapen, decrepit, or dull we are, there is someone out there for us. And you know what? There is! Walk through any shopping mall and you see the most extraordinary pairings," he says. "We all need hope in our lives. And Hollywood trades on hope...
...make sure you listen to your true preferences when you're at the mall? "First of all, consumers should experience the product before they look at specifications," says Hsee. "Sometimes marketers use a big font, but we should try to ignore it." Reading about how many coils a mattress has only after you've laid on it for a while should keep your decision-making more in line with your real perception of comfort...
...this case and other hedge fund frauds in which auditors have been held liable is that Madoff was not actually a client of any of the large auditing firms. Madoff's firm used the small New City, N.Y., accounting firm Friehling & Horowitz - which reportedly had offices in a strip mall and had only three employees, including a secretary, an accountant and a partner in his seventies who lived in Florida. Industry experts now say that the size of Madoff's accounting firm should have been a giant red flag...
...flying saucer plopped down on Washington's Mall. It carried two passengers, an alien called Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who had obviously visited us before, there being no other explanation for his perfect Oxonian accent, and a robot named Gort, who was played by a giant whose day job was doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater. The visitors represented an alliance of outer space planets and they were on a mission: to warn us earthlings to mend our warlike ways. Klaatu wanted to convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing...
...Home could work too. But Sony has got to lighten up and let its users take a bit of control. Open up the platform and understand that people want to feel as if their Home is their castle - not Sony's mall...