Word: mindset
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...invariably the villain is the least developed principal character, typically a faceless mid-level manager who shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby details of an industry, this time home appliances. The liveliest scenes depict Thatcher's bickering colleagues; the folkways and preening of high financiers are observed with utter lack...
Unfortunately, the entire discussion is predicated on the actual existence and undesirability of such a thing as "grade inflation" at Harvard. Having assumed such a problem, the debate has focused only on its causes and cures. This is the sort of collective mindset that prompts idle New York Times reporters to run up to Harvard and Yale to interview crusty old professors about the good old days when a C was a "gentleman's C" and an A was as rare as present-day Harvard professors who grade their own papers...
...both opened the Ivy season eying the championship," Delaney Smith said. "I really wonder what their mindset is going to be this time. Being the underdog might change things for Princeton...
...think you have to avoid a sort of mindset of conspiracy of the University against the students. That's not what we're doing," Nathans says. "I think you have to assume intelligence and good will on the part of people who designed the system as a security system and not a spy system...
Meanwhile, the old editor mused in the alternative "Oak Leaf" that Friday about the mindset of his detractors: "I can imagine your feeling that you're...not quite smart enough unless you can say, 'Excuse me, but, I find that really offensive,' to at least five people per day." The Heirs didn't understand the Randoms, and the Randoms didn't say much...