Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fortunes. Oracle stock took a quick dip, but Ellison's slash-and-burn sales force and espresso-fueled programmers quickly unplugged the challenge. "Informix did tons of things wrong," says Ellison. "They started writing checks instead of software." Last week Informix announced a $140 million quarterly loss and the ritual sacrifice of its cfo, who resigned. It was the kind of victory Ellison likes best: bloody. "Second place," he tells friends, "is still losing...
...Capoeira: Dance of Liberation. The Harvard Brazilan Organization presents a thrilling, even over whelming, ritual of high-powered dance and song Dunster Courtyard...
...millions of Jewish families hold Passover Seders this week, in many households the ritual celebration of deliverance from Egypt will be followed by talk of a new predicament. Prompted partly by a debate between two pugnacious lawyer-authors--and partly by dire statistics, which, over years, have become as rote as the Passover Haggadah--a generation will look at its children and speculate whether its grandchildren will be Jews...
Scoops and Beans gets two gloved thumbs up from this ice cream connoisseur. This tiny store on JFK Street is the Neiman-Marcus of the local ice cream shops. Shopping here increases the pleasure quotient of my ritual. The menu is immense, as are the portions, but not the prices. There is an impressive selection of frozen yogurt flavors, ranging from the nothing-in-them variety to the I-can't-believe-this-is-low-fat sort...
Since arriving at Harvard, I have developed an entire ritual to accompany the day's climactic meal. The winter weather mandated certain adjustments, but I refused to allow nature to interfere with my happiness. I have Raynaud's Disease, a condition of bad circulation, which generally afflicts women of Northern and Western European descent. (My family hails from Germany). So, I need to guard my hands against excessive cold. It's sad that I still need to wear mittens in April...