Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams explained that each of her songs "tunnels through the experience of being a woman." The poetry resonates in me: "I am the brainchild, I am the mortar, with a plastic trophy and an eating disorder and a vision as big as a great big wall, and they tell me that I'll move forward for the good of us all." This illustrates the dilemma women face, as we are expected to be the mortar which holds society and family together, but also encouraged to move forward, though unable to see past the aesthetic images which also colonize our minds...
...wait: Visa reports that roughly 8 cents of every $100 spent online is lost to fraud - more, if only slightly, than the 7 cents per $100 lost in the bricks-and-mortar world. So why shouldn't consumers be concerned? Answer: The perpetrators, by and large, are not hackers snatching credit-card numbers out of cyberspace. Typically, they tend to be the same old Dumpster divers and mail thieves they've always been, stealing card numbers off receipts and bills and then trying to pass as the cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits...
...being done to Widener Library. And if you remember all the fun facts from your pre-frosh Crimson Key campus tour, you should know that renovations to this library come with some major strings attached. Take, for instance, the stipulations that "not a brick, stone, or piece of mortar [could] be changed" on the completed building, and that no structures could be erected in the light courts at the center of the building. How, you ask, has the crafty Harvard administration managed to side step these restrictions. A library communications officer, allows that both of these provisions are being broken...
That's because every shopper's click provides data, Brooks says. And in the past eight months, he has used that data, along with information from focus groups, to redesign his site five times. Brooks is dubious that a brick-and-mortar retailer can adapt as quickly to consumer needs. "My sense of time is compressed," he says. "For someone who has spent 25 years as a retailer to adopt this speed will be very tough...
...than with profits." ETrade was not profitable in 1998, or in two of three quarters in 1999. But because it can keep its own forgiving investors happy despite those numbers, and because it's not encumbered by expensive branch offices, the company is more nimble than its brick-and-mortar competitors, Burke says. But that may change soon: Cotsakos, who's thrived on the bold moves only Net moguls seem to get away with, said in September that he plans to form an alliance with a traditional financial company. The reason? To give investors personal attention...