Word: pureness
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...Although the case as a whole is absurd, the most bizarre aspect is the pure unprofessionalism with which Venkatesan handled the situation. By e-mailing students directly, without going through a lawyer or the university, she produced unnecessary stress and confusion for students. The content of her pre-litigious messages is also dubious: She accused them of violating “anti-federal discrimination laws” under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, or national origin. Putting aside the bad grammar of her e-mail, it is unclear...
...course, another factor associated with longer holding times is the consumption of pure oxygen beforehand. The world record for holding your breath after inhaling pure oxygen is now Blaine's - 17 minutes and 4 seconds. The record without the pure oxygen, which Blaine failed to break during an attempt last year in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is 8 minutes and 58 seconds...
...With or without pure oxygen, holding your breath is a difficult and dangerous pastime even for elite athletes. When not done carefully, it can lead to drowning, or to potential tissue damage in the heart, brains or lungs. Preliminary results from Potkin's research into apnea's long-term effects show some abnormal brain scans among young, extreme free divers. There's still much to learn about the phenomenon; as a medical student, Potkin recalls, he was told that no one could hold his breath for more than five minutes without suffering brain damage. Now, he wants...
...decision to move the value-added sorting and aggregation from its traditional center in London to Gaborone was a pure business call for De Beers, according to Penny and De Beers Group chairman Nicky Oppenheimer. It's a concrete way to live up to a phrase coined by Oppenheimer, posted on the wall of every De Beers office: LIVING UP TO DIAMONDS. Oppenheimer, one of the richest men in Africa and the third generation of Oppenheimers to run De Beers, notes, "Ultimately, people do not need to buy diamonds." That they do buy them, he says, is bound...
...benefit of using a design approach as opposed to pure management consulting, advocates argue, is that it enables--or even requires--a team to invent new ways to solve problems. Jump Associates, based in San Mateo, Calif., recently collaborated with General Electric's executive-jet business. Jump managing associate Dev Patnaik walked the GE people through hangars and later sent them to a toy store; one brought back a model plane attached to a plastic landing strip. The executive, Patnaik recalls, said, "This is it--this is the problem with executive jets!" He then explained that the services jet owners...