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HOLLIDAY Aw, shoot ... "Sustainable growth"? That's the phrase we use. We have "sustainable growth" reviews every year that track the life cycle of our products. We want to know what our products are doing three steps downstream and how they are eventually recycled back into the environment. It's much more efficient if you look at the total life cycle instead of what happens at one manufacturing plant...
...beauty that kills the beast this time. It's--sorry for the fancy literary phrase--"the anxiety of influence." Confronted with the task of remaking one of the best and most beloved movies of all time, director Jackson wishes to both pay homage to the original 1933 version and improve on it, which has caused him to edgily throw around money and technology to mixed avail. His homages to the original's most famous scenes are sometimes spectacularly expansive. Where once the Big Guy had just a handful of prehistoric creatures to deal with, he now has herds of them...
...England, and Canada to promote it. In an interview, he said that he may be visiting other European countries when translations of the novel are published. Both The New York Times and the Washington Post have profiled Iweala as a rising young writer. But, when he used the phrase “narrative construct” in the question and answer session after the reading, he paused to chuckle at himself. In response to his acclaim, Iweala told The Crimson yesterday, “The best thing is that you know people are interested in what you have...
...stories,” says Lee. “It’s a timely thing, but it’s not calculated.”And of course, they too have to deal with those dreaded two words: gay cowboy. Lee professes that his greatest issue with the phrase is that such a seemingly absurd combination might bear the “connotation of being a comedy.” For Gyllenhaal, the stigma of that label scared him away from the script when it was initially shown to him at the age of 16. “When...
...MISSIONARY DATING’ Despite these complications, some students are willing to pursue interfaith relationships. Some Christian students jokingly refer to interfaith relationships as “missionary dating,” pointing out that conversion might be a consequence of the relationship. Skoda says the phrase negatively connotes one person setting out in a relationship in order to convert the other person, and she says she thinks that this happens infrequently, if at all.In a more positive interpretation, Gillis says that sometimes a person who is initially interested in Christianity ends up committing to the faith with the help...