Word: monster
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...reveal Fido's green-eyed monster, Range and three other scientists at the University of Vienna put together pairs of domestic dogs, each accompanied by an experimenter. Both dogs in each pair were given commands to place their paws in the experimenter's hands, and when they obeyed, they were given a reward - a piece of bread or sausage. But when one dog wasn't given a reward for obeying, and the other dog in the room was, the unrewarded dog would refuse to respond to the repeated commands. The scientists measured the dogs' responses by how many times they...
...comes as no surprise that the creed of the design team is "The design that is not designed." That could be a Zen nightmare, but Yasui explains: "It might sound sarcastic, but it is the ultimate design--anonymous, free of décor, without mark. It is not a monster of functions. It is simple." The team's official name--Planning & Design/Material Development Office--hardly captures the creativity that directs Muji's household division, which includes furniture, housewares, stationery, fabric, electronics and health and beauty. The team's designs drive 55% of Muji's sales, about $1.5 billion...
...That, at least, is the nightmare version from the American perspective. But China's ability to make or break the U.S. economy is more of a "monster under our bed," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Beijing University, something that people spend too much time worrying about. Economists like Pettis believe - and the data to date suggest - that both consumption and private investment in the U.S. are plunging at a faster rate than government spending is rising. And given that consumers have shut their wallets, the U.S. savings rate is almost certainly headed up as this recession deepens...
...mass of gruff prejudices against the minorities who've moved into his Michigan town. When some kids brawl in front of his house, he brandishes a rifle and actually shouts, "Get off my lawn!" In any other movie, he'd be the sour comic relief or the monster's first victim. But since, in Gran Torino, he's played by Clint Eastwood, Walt is a stalwart man of the Midwest--the hero who has a score to settle. With himself...
...remark. “In campaigns, people sometimes say things they would prefer they didn’t say,” Allison said. Power’s remark, given in an interview with a Scottish newspaper, stirred controversy last March. “She is a monster, too,” Power told the Scotsman. “She is stooping to anything.” Power told the Scotsman that Clinton would fight Obama unscrupulously for the Democratic nomination, and “the amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive...