Word: mantras
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Unshackled from their government moorings and given a remit to compete, many of Britain's utilities in the 1990s took the decade's "growth is good" mantra to heart and morphed into conglomerates. Some reached beyond their own sectors for opportunities, expecting to apply their management skills to marginally related businesses. That's how energy company Scottish Power ended up owning a water company, a telecom and 160 electronics shops, as well as hawking financial-services. But the expected "synergies" of such diverse companies never fully developed, and Scottish Power's earnings - as well as its share price...
...topics not directly related to their area of expertise? The problem is not isolated to scientists—there are English professors who refuse, or are unable, to delve into questions of morality, philosophy professors unwilling to discuss literature and any number of other examples. Specialization is the current mantra, and as professors define smaller and smaller areas of expertise, our courses get narrower and narrower in scope...
...actions. It’s obvious that Ryder is seriously depressed. She’s taking medication (albeit without a doctor’s orders), and her shoplifting episode was clearly intended as a public cry for help. Frankly, it frightens me that a nation obsessed with the mantra, “United we stand,” is so quick to isolate Ryder as a pariah. Perhaps we should demonstrate our self-proclaimed “unity” and give the woman the help she so obviously needs (and wants). Ms. Ryder, if it?...
...level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra here as anywhere, means little on street level beyond flag-bunting, expressway signs in English and more Starbucks franchises...
...Michael installed Surfwatch—a popular Internet filter—to avoid sex-filled websites. “I knew if I was a good Christian then I shouldn’t look at it, especially four times a week” he says. His mantra became a verse from the New Testament: “If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell” (Matthew...