Word: scared
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First-round interviews take place at the Harvard-owned building on Mass. Ave., and scare stories from the waiting room and the interviews abound among recruits. Finance recruiters frequently ask students to recall financial data, such as what the market closed at the day before, and consulting recruiters might throw a curve-ball case-study question that could stump even the most prepared senior...
...outdoor ad agency Hyperspace - but appealing. Some 78% of travelers at Tottenham Court Road find the adverts entertaining, according to Viacom Outdoor, which currently sells ad space on the London tube. "It's early days," says James Davies of Hyperspace. "And we don't want to alienate consumers or scare them." Indeed. Last week, a poster for the film Sin City became the first interactive ad to be banned by Britain's Advertising Standards Authority for allowing kids to see clips that were deemed too violent. But there might soon be subtler objections to rule on. If your Bluetooth...
Every first-year gets a scare session on the penalties of plagiarism and the importance of academic excellence. Why is it then that there are no clear rules or requirements for the amount of effort that faculty must contribute to the course environment? If passing requirements can be set for students across the board without threat to their academic freedom, then surely it is possible for faculty as well. Without them, students can hardly consider themselves equal citizens in an academic community; rather we realize that we are looked on, at best, as mere consumers of “education...
...gutsy play, and it came from the gut: unlike almost any other high-tech company, Apple refuses to run its decisions by focus groups. But Jobs is a hardened gambler, and he doesn't scare easily. This is the guy who coolly poured millions of his own dollars into an unknown and direly unprofitable company called Pixar before anybody had even made a full-length computer-animated movie. "The more we started to talk about what this could be," Jobs says, "it wasn't long before I said, 'You know, what if we just bet our future on this...
...recent fine August day, I had a little bit of a scare. My Air China flight from Ningbo to Beijing was just rolling down the runway for take-off. I was sitting quietly, unopened book in lap and smug thoughts about a certain half-price plane ticket in mind, when my seat started shaking, harder than before...