Word: pyramidally
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Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent...
...TAPS and Mainly Jazz came together for a classy and high-energy piece that McKenna choreographed to Cole Porter’s “Too Darn Hot.” The performance culminated in an effective series of poses synced with colored light cues, followed by a huge pyramid formation in which the dancers finished with a thrilling, Charleston-inspired sequence...
Tata hopes the Nano will help millions of poor people around the world - the "Bottom of the Pyramid" in developing world marketing-speak -switch from two wheels to four. Environmentalists, city planners and even some competitors, on the other hand, warn that the new vehicle will clog up India's crowded roads and add clouds of pollution to its already filthy...
...Indian consumers into four categories by their income and consumption patterns - 60 million people with high purchasing power, 100 million well on the road to that level of consumption, 100 to 150 million who have just started that journey, and the rest who are at the "bottom of the pyramid" or BOP, in Bijapurkar's shorthand. However, though its members earn less than a dollar a day, the BOP also forms a significant consumer base, says Bijapurkar, and businesses like microfinance have successfully tapped this segment. Indeed, Bijapurkar says, the vast majority of Indian consumers may have limitations but they...
...It’s not that big a deal to get a postdoc if you want one,” Hughes says. “It’s a pyramid scheme. The next jump”—from postdoc to professor—“is really hard...