Word: mindset
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...real mind-boggler. You see one, you talk about it a bit and you go to the next one, and the next, and you're still trying to think about the first one you saw. Then you're back in reality - you're still in the mindset of the movie theater, in the dark, and you have to go out and go home...
America, like Europe, will eventually adopt more private roads and tolls. But the U.S. needs to adopt a new mindset as well. Infrastructure is a matter of homeland security, a concept that Dwight Eisenhower understood when he started the federal highway system during the cold war. The healthier a locale is before a disaster (or terrorist attack), the healthier it will be afterward. As we learned the hard way in New Orleans, the opposite is also true. But if we invest in strong levees, roads and rails, then even inevitable calamities will have fewer consequences. We will be able...
...constitution's promise of a nation united in its diversity may remain more an aspiration than a reality. In today's South Africa, whites, coloreds and blacks still segregate themselves into single-race neighborhoods - not by law, but consent and economic circumstance. "It's the continuation of the apartheid mindset," says Lefko-Everett. And apartheid's saddest legacy turns out to be this: it didn't just make racists out of whites...
...though, she doesn’t believe Harvard’s perceived “academics-first” mindset will prevent her from scoring the same top-flight athletes she’s used to nabbing...
...increase productivity. An Austrian created Red Bull, building the energy drink niche in the U.S. Marketers removed emphasis from the working stiff and created a more frivolous image. Power Horse, whose potency claims are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), distances itself from the party mindset. The press release states, “The drink’s very appearance (a stocky and powerful can) demonstrates that Power Horse is not a drink for party-goers, stuntmen and acrobats. It is for everyday people...