Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manager of the Elephant Walk restaurant, which is moving from its current location in Somerville to the space formerly occupied by Finnegan's Wake pub in Porter Square and the manager of 7-Eleven, which is replacing Christy's Market at 36-40 John F. Kennedy...
...first explorations of the job market were in the field of finance. I don't have much interest in finance either, but it pays better then the local soup kitchen. I called every contact I could think of, intent on snagging a lucrative position on Wall Street. I soon discovered that most of my contacts are bastards...
...convinced my phone interviewer that social studies is the study of how Weber, Foucault and Habermas have contributed to theories of market share and advertising. I talked about the relationship of the Budweiser frog to the bourgeois public sphere. I said that Coke is a well-marketed product...
JERUSALEM: Anyone who's ever bargained over tchotchkes in a Middle Eastern market will recognize the pattern: Arafat demands Israeli withdrawal from 30 percent of the West Bank; Netanyahu offers 9 percent; the U.S. suggests 13 percent; Arafat reluctantly agrees. Today, Netanyahu announced he might meet Arafat "halfway" at 11 percent. You do the math; Al Gore won't -- he stressed repeatedly that he was here for Israel's birthday party, not as a peace negotiator...
...almost the end of the term, and you're not going to take it anymore. After an entire shopping week's worth of market research searching for the best, most interesting, most useful or easiest courses to take, you now realize how wrong everyone was. That so-called "gut" required far more guts than you expected. That purportedly "lucid and inspiring" professor made you wish that you were less than lucid during class. Or maybe the entire experience would have been just dandy, had it not been for the Teaching Fellow from Hell. In short, you were duped. Wronged. Spurned...