Word: paradoxical
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Instead, what emerges from the variety of stories assembled here is that the most important step towards achieving fame and/or fortune in the music business is realizing that there is no one most important step. And that’s a real-life paradox that they won’t teach you about in Moral Reasoning cores...
...biggest wine producer and a company many people still associate with California jug wines like Carlo Rossi. Three years ago, Joe, co-president of the company and son of legendary co-founder Ernest, returned from a trip to Europe and asked his consumer-research team to explain his French paradox: that most Americans still rated French wines as the best in the world but the French were rapidly losing market share to Australia and Italy. Why? The answer had less to do with anti-French sentiment than with France's wine-classification system, which Americans find too intimidating with...
...moment of rare and beautiful paradox. Harvard’s baseball games had never seemed more trivial. But its baseball team—and the human bonds that hold it together—had never seemed more important...
Development economists have called this phenomenon “the natural resource endowment paradox,” which holds that developing nations with the greatest endowments of natural resources frequently develop more slowly and unsuccessfully than similar nations with less natural wealth. These are also the countries with the most corrupt government and the least civil liberties. There are a number of theories as to why this is so, but the consequence is clear: with the exception of Norway, almost every oil-rich country is “shady” in some...
...brimming with energy as it is stifled, one of Oldham’s first releases, under his original moniker, is an excellent introduction to the paradox that is his peculiar brand of folk-country-rock-core, complete with cracking inflections and murky wordplay...