Word: platformization
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...lawmaker Ma Lik - is being billed as the most dramatic in Hong Kong's history because of its implications for democratic reform. Chan faces the pro-Beijing camp's anointed candidate, former security chief Regina Ip. Defeat for Ip will be interpreted as a vote for Chan's political platform, which includes the introduction of universal suffrage by 2012. It is an anxious prospect for mainland China, which vets candidates for Hong Kong's top offices. Yet Chan says she is uncowed by Beijing's disapproval: "I'm putting my money where my mouth...
Cookies for baby food. CEO Franck Riboud says "the new Danone" will be "the most beautiful food platform you can imagine." Danone's cookie divestiture completed a transformation that has given the former conglomerate a clear focus. To get there, the company has undergone a radical change. In 1996 Danone was selling beer, glass, frozen food, pasta sauces, candies, Italian cheese, cookies, dairy products and water. Riboud, who took over the business from his famous industrialist father Antoine that year (the family controls less than 0.5% of the shares), decided in 1997 to refocus the company, which began its conglomerate...
...crowd gathered on the village green respects that. Dangling her conker, she bends her knees, pumps up and down and violently thrusts it at her target. "That's a savage downward shot," the announcer barks on the loudspeaker. Her rival's nut shatters, brown debris scatters on the white platform and the crowd erupts. After 30 strikes, Stone earns the title of Ladies' World Champion: she came, she saw, she conkered...
Starting next Monday, GoCross-Campus, an on-line social gaming platform built by a few Yale and Columbia students, will launch the GXC Ivy League Championship, which pits the eight schools against one another for domination across the Northeast...
...appointed, University President Drew G. Faust made it clear that she was not ready to lay out the platform of initiatives that would define her tenure...