Word: panning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cars, for instance, aren't considered to be particularly top of the line in Germany, but are considered luxury cars in much of the rest of the world. Rovers are commonplace in Britain, but they are seen as classy foreign imports in Southern Europe. There is not even pan-European agreement on what constitutes quality. A T shirt made from a cotton-polyester blend may suit a British shopper, but French and German consumers want 100% cotton T shirts only, please. Licensing executive Gianfranco Mari, head of the agency DIC 2 in Milan, underlines that "what sells in Italy...
Chinese university presidents participating are Chen Jia'er of Peking University, Jiang Shusheng of Nanjing University, Pan Yunhe of Zhejiang University, Wang Dazhong of Tsinghua University, Wang Shenghong of Fudan University, Xie Shengwu of Shanghai Jiaotong, Xu Tongmo of Xian Jiaotong...
...research performed on mice. "What goes on with lab mice is many, many steps away from what goes on with humans," says Horowitz. "And the work we're doing now with gene therapy is only the tip of the iceberg. It'll be a long time before these things pan out into medical cures...
...effect is fantastic, and frightening. Watching Being John Malkovich feels a bit like being a frog in a pan of slowly warmed water - after a while the water is boiling, but you can hardly tell the difference. Little by little, things change, until you're somewhere you never intended...
Freberg was an enormously talented composer whose intricate rhymes and uncanny ear for song styles would have made him a Tin Pan Alley success even without the satire. On his great United States of America album, Freberg portrayed Ben Franklin as a prickly conservative who balked at signing Tom Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The two founding fathers sing a number that includes this exchange...