Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual ritual has nothing to do with grading students on their performance during the semester--there's already time enough for that. Instead, this is the week at the end of each semester when students trudge from class to class, filling out those pink bubble sheets full of questions about courses, professors and teaching fellows. The resulting CUE Guide is used by unsuspecting first-years and by even more experienced upperclass students in the pursuit of the "right" classes to make a great semester...
...evidence has mounted, some doctors have begun recommending a daily drink for cardiac patients. But most physicians are not ready to recommend a ritual happy hour for everyone. The risks of teetotaling are nothing compared with the dangers of too much alcohol, including high blood pressure, strokes and cirrhosis of the liver -- not to mention violent behavior and traffic accidents. Moreover, some studies suggest that even moderate drinking may increase the incidence of breast and colon cancer. Until there is evidence that the benefits of a daily dose of alcohol outweigh the risks, most people won't be able...
...escape of the tea ritual has always been very important to me," Wizansky says...
...introduction of Ford's new Mustang. At General Motors 11 months earlier, affable, unassuming Jack Smith landed just as unceremoniously in that company's top job. Following the virulent boardroom coup that ousted his predecessor, chairman Robert Stempel, and most of his top executives, Smith ascended with no ritual at all, and settled down to business at the world's largest industrial corporation so quietly that he has seldom been seen or heard from in public since. At Chrysler, Bob Eaton owed his job to another noisy boardroom battle to persuade Chrysler's miracle worker Lee Iacocca that...
Haibin Jiu. It became a kind of ritual: "Whoops! It's Friday. We should call Haibin about the pictures we need for Monday." We appreciate your trekking all over Cambridge and campus to snap sassy pics with attitude...