Word: mindsets
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...Week as well as Turfer/New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) Co-Player of the Week honors. Although he is ranked as the No. 4 incoming freshman in his class by Inside Lacrosse, Crimson coach John Tillman praised Cohen for his humility and not letting his great success impede his mindset or adjustment to the college game. “Coming into Division I lacrosse from high school takes a long time to adjust to how fast the pace is—how well-conditioned you have to be, how strong you have to be,” Tillman said...
...This affluent mindset will have to change. The boom did raise the national homeownership rate from 60% to more than 67%, but the bust is bringing it right back down again - probably to less than 60% by the end of the year. As a result, demand for affordable rental units (meaning less than $1,000 a month for two bedrooms in South Florida) is bound to rise. And no amount of empty five-bedroom, three-bath dream houses is going to satisfy...
...union's executive board paid little attention to Helling. The owners were of a similar mindset. In fact, within a matter of days of Helling sounding an alarm that went unheeded, baseball provided official proof that steroids were not considered an urgent problem. At those same 1998 winter baseball meetings in Nashville, baseball's two medical directors, Dr. Robert Millman, who was appointed by the owners, and Dr. Joel Solomon, the designee of the players, delivered a presentation to baseball executives and physicians about the benefits of using testosterone. Angels general manager Bill Stoneman was so surprised at the tone...
...laid off—often after having driven through a snowstorm to reach work on time. With consumer confidence plummeting after a month in which the U.S. lost nearly 600,000 jobs, this is a site for the recession.The site’s essence, then, lies in evoking the mindset of adolescence. Sometimes this is literal—a primary cause of angst on FML seems to be whether the writer’s “friends” are conspiring against him. More generally, though, adolescence tends to represent the stage in life in which one?...
...really want, versus what do I really need? Sure, I can afford the plasma television now, but should I save that $2,000, in case I get laid off tomorrow? Can I really tell my snobby friends that I now shop at - egads - Walmart? To gauge the mindset of the American consumer, and the state of shopping during this recession, TIME checked in with respected retail expert Paco Underhill, the CEO of Envirosell, a consulting firm, and author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping...