Word: mottoes
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...ADOPT ADAPT ADEPT" the Japanese corporate motto has always unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows...
...READ Margaret Atwood's own voice--as opposed to one of the many voices of her fictional and poetic personae--is to see the feminist motto "the personal is political" in a new light. Atwood once described herself in an interview as a "de facto feminist," taking the position that every intelligent woman is a feminist--but she can also argue from the standpoint of a crusader for women's rights, a poet, a novelist, a pioneering critic of Canadian literature, a Canadian nationalist, and an Amnesty International activist. The essays in Second Words emanate from all these Atwoods...
That's the new motto of the Harvard women's lacrosse squad, which found this weekend that it needed a little more than Veritas...
...comprised of Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, and Malachi Favors Meghostut, abide by the motto "Ancient to the Future." As Bowie explains; "We want the different elements of music--some of our stuff has lovely little melodies, and a lot is wild stuff...
...Rendered in an unobtrusive translation by Barbara Bray, The King's Way recounts in an elegant pastiche of 17th century prose the inelegant scramble among the monarch's many mistresses for sovereignty in the bedchamber. How did Mme. de Mainte non ultimately snag the Sun King? The motto she adopted tells it all: "I shine only...