Word: ripely
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...season, which kicks off on Sept. 10 when the defending Super Bowl Champions the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Tennessee Titans, is ripe with intriguing story lines. After missing last season due to injury, can New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady return to Super Bowl form? After spending nearly two years in the slammer, how will Michael Vick fit into the Philadelphia Eagles' offense, not to mention society? And perhaps most puzzling of all, Why, during these historically bad economic times, is the NFL sticking it to its fans? (See the top 10 sports comebacks...
...There were new permissions in the air, and old hierarchies had softened, had become ripe for toppling,” wrote Susan Sontag in her 1996 piece “Thirty Years Later,” looking back on the cultural landscape mapped out in her first essay collection. It was, she concluded, a “mythical...
Toyota's intrepid Prius customers are ripe for the next big thing, says Nickerson, noting research shows that a high percentage of Prius owners are likely to consider pure electrics or hybrid plug-ins. "Prius owners are people very comfortable trying new technologies because of their positive experience with Prius," she says. (Read "Nissan's New Leaf: An Electric Car and Charging Stations...
...Like the many millions who campaigned for Obama and celebrated his victory, I was confident going into the summer that significant health-care reform would pass and would define his first year in office, if not his presidency. After all, the time was ripe: President Obama had campaigned hard on health-care reform and now had a mandate. The public seemed to understand that reform was not just a matter of extending care to the growing millions of Americans without it, but also a matter of harnessing out-of-control costs. Despite the best efforts of Fox News...
...with nearly half of Japan's population of 95 million expected to be over age 60 by 2050, Japan is the most rapidly aging country in the world. Its demographics have traditionally been seen as a liability and a drag on productivity. But it could be a ripe opportunity for the domestic economy. The health-care-service industry is growing, and the technologies developed to handle the aging population will be of use to other industrialized nations when their time comes. Liberalization of growing sectors such as nursing and medical care would allow consumers to pay extra for premium services...