Word: opted
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...Internet, media tycoons from the old line venues looked to the Internet with fear. Ubiquitous and cheap, the new medium threatened their businesses with extinction or, worse, irrelevance. They did what any responsible business owner would do when faced with such a situation: they attempted, quite successfully, to co-opt the revolution by launching their own Internet news and analysis sites. By 2001, CBS Marketwatch, CNN.com and Dow Jones OpinionJournal.com had proven far more influential and popular than their upstart new economy challengers TheStreet.com, Slate.com and Salon.com. The revolution, it appeared, was over...
...okay, four years) that students don’t even remember that it was once an option. Would it be expensive? Sure—so charge for cheap tickets, say $5 or so (and give the folks who still don’t want to go a chance to opt out). Springfest has been dry for years, but the council overlooked the opportunity to revisit the issue with the advent of Summers. Lee says the obstacle is the massive amount of surveillance required—an alcohol cage and other precautions. “UC reps who were around...
...more service business is to buy a consulting firm like PricewaterhouseCoopers, which Fiorina tried but failed to acquire in 2000. But there is another way. Call it the Gillette strategy. Just as that company virtually gives away razors to make a killing on blades, HP could opt to gather more strength in the PC and low-end server businesses in order to sell more service contracts as part of the package. "I certainly don't see PCs as white elephants," she says. "Getting on the desktop brings you a lot of opportunity...
...that he did not intend to dilute the material, and that the class would be difficult. The hypocrisy here is patent, and, sadly, highly prevalent. One hears a abundance of whining about the lack of rigor in Core courses, but when push comes to shove, most of the complainers opt for Magic over Math 21a, “If there is no God.…” over Philosophy 174, “Matter in the Universe” over Chem. 10. Until the enrollment of the most difficult Core courses begins to swell and that...
...response, Summers noted that if “motivated” students opt into departmental classes, the incentive to create good Core classes would evaporate...