Word: potpourri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FOUR: SLOW INNOVATION The mobile carriers have maintained unchallenged dominance over their markets - and their customers. That's allowed them to preserve their potpourri of fees and to go slow on innovation, thus the stale approach to voice-mail and other services. Google recently proposed an auction system that would enable new players to buy into the wireless spectrum, an idea that could open the door to the sort of competition in the mobile world that enabled the high-speed access offered by better Internet Service Providers to topple AOL's old stranglehold on its customers. The carriers argue that...
...Potpourri for Voice and Piano Memorial Church...
From Shakespeare to Swaziland, from potpourri to potent potables, one Harvard freshman will have to know it all. Ashley M. Grand ’10 is set to appear as one of 15 contestants in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship, vying for a $100,000 top prize, Sony Pictures Television announced Wednesday. Grand, who will head to the University of Southern California to compete on April 21 and 22, said her choice to audition for the show last year was a spur-of-the-moment decision. “I was in Chicago...
...mail. In a reversal from the norm, it was the pizza that provided a greasy yet savory palate cleanser for the tasting’s main attraction: the soft drinks. Billed as a restaurant opening by ads on Annenburg tables, the event featured a potpourri of non-alcoholic stand-bys including Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, 7-Up, Red Bull, and their respective diet versions. “I think they really misrepresented the event by calling it a tasting,” said pub-goer Sara A. Bartolino ’10. Cranberry Juice and Triple Sec both made cameo appearances...
...Cape Cod and Pennsylvania Dutch country to backwoods Montana, the Southwest and Los Angeles, indie radio remains a vibrant, often quirky medium still committed to a strong relationship with its listeners as it walks the tightrope between aesthetics and profits. Whether the format is music, talk, news or a potpourri, the indies' watchwords are local, live and relevant as they cater to their communities of interest and harness new technologies. The indies are counterattacking to take advantage of the status woe bedeviling mainstream radio in the U.S. The time consumers have spent listening to it has declined 14% over...