Word: quests
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...they need. Colleges, for example, are currently granting degrees in computer sciences to barely 25% of the number of people industry wants to hire. And new skill sets are in demand because of what Hofrichter of Hay Group calls "almost another industrial revolution." He explains that companies in their quest to become lean and mean have combined old jobs and put together work teams to the point that they no longer look for narrow skills but instead for workers who can do what used to be two or three jobs...
...that, internationally, America has come to represent shopping malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps because of the semi-socialist basis of the French government or the eternal quest for liberty, equality and fraternity, the American cult of the consumer as we know it does not exist here. Purchasing power does not seem to wow and dazzle, nor does it engender sympathy or goodwill...
Some equally uninspiring characters aid Nikki on her quest to solve the murder, including an actress from the American Repertoire Theater, a 20 year old law student, Nikki's landlady (a former English professor denied tenure) and a Harvard University Police Department detective from the Caribbean. These companion figures are set in opposition to those who fall in the suspect category. The companions take a less-than-active role in providing Nikki with different types of sage advice, while the suspects do their very best to impede her investigation. The result is nothing less than formulaic. Scenes in which Professor...
...Best Package and Best Advertising Campaign--was severe. While it doesn't much affect sales, a FiFi can directly affect the career of those involved, giving them precious exposure to marketing partners. "It was devastating for us," says Cindy VanderVoort, wife of Koert VanderVoort, vice president of sales for Quest International, which launched Tommy Girl, a major fragrance that lost the top FiFi to Chanel's Allure at last year's awards. "They worked for seven months on this. They flew guys in from France on the Concorde to touch up the top notes. He went skydiving for Hilfiger Athletics...
...disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue, "Oed' und leer das Meer," or something even more peculiar. It ended, in fact, with a cascade of lines in different languages--English, Italian, Latin, French, Sanskrit. Still, readers felt the desperate spiritual quest behind the poem--and were seduced by the unerring musicality of its free-verse lines...