Word: marketed
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...owner, George Lammers, noting the drastic difference between subtropical, humid Gitmo and dry, wintry Hardin, says, "This place would be torture for some of those boys." But, he allows, "I think it would be great for all the law enforcement people to be here. It would help our housing market. Our city fathers wanted the economic benefits, but I guess they didn't foresee the political controversies...
...year later; serves as spokesman for the beef industry ("Beef: It's What's for Dinner"); runs a clothing line, and a children's foundation, called j.k. livin, after his life motto "Just keep livin'"; and doesn't use deodorant or cologne - but we'll bet he could market his musk...
...have a tendency to play it safe" (uh-uh). Still, Ashby's clients give enthusiastic testimony to her powers of prediction. The trader remembers only one occasion when Ashby's advice proved wrong: "She told me I would meet someone in October, but it was very busy on the market and I wasn't in the mood for love." And while the trader requests anonymity for fear colleagues will scoff, she believes her profession has much in common with Ashby's. "We work on intuition," she says. "You wake up in the morning thinking 'I don't like this position...
...trader never supplements that intuition by asking her spiritual guide for market advice. "There's an ethic," she says. But with financial institutions the world over suffering the consequences of their collective lack of prescience, mightn't there be an argument for using every possible method to gain foreknowledge...
...About to be thrust into a daunting bear market, members of Harvard’s graduating class have doubtless pondered the ultimate meaning of their hard-earned diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible...