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...tell about it in their book Virtual Reality and the College Freshman. "The freshman student often faces an identity crisis during the first semester," they write. "Kids know who they are in their senior year of high school, but a freshman has to reach out and start from scratch." College is a more pressured environment than it used to be, in part because the academic gap between high school and college has increased. Many college freshmen have never had to make independent decisions about sex, drugs and alcohol. Most don't know how to manage their time or money. They...
That means Barto's replacement, Bob Deraney, will have to start from scratch to come up with a productive offense...
...Wisconsin-Stevens Point never had a winning season in hockey. I was there for six years, and we just started from scratch," Mazzoleni said. "Everything changed. And we became such a superior team at our level...
...powerhouse LaFace Records, run by L.A. Reid and the producer Babyface, were mere chicken feed: about $3 million apiece. Last year LaFace chalked up sales of more than $75 million and Bad Boy of about $35 million. "Rather than buy companies and pay multiples," says Davis, "we started from scratch and made a relatively modest investment. We split profits immediately as opposed to paying off hundreds of millions in acquisition costs." Says industry analyst Michael Nathanson: "The low-debt producer-artist model works well, provided you have an ear for talent...
Like many frugal hotel entrepreneurs today, Schrager's formula is to "reinvent" dilapidated structures instead of building from scratch. He has made an art form of saving money with style--making industrial-quality fixtures look fashionable. He never skimps on attitude, though--ask anyone who has been chided for trying to move the carefully arranged pool chairs at Los Angeles' Mondrian. Schrager stages casting calls and hires aspiring actor-models to play the help; the snooty service can be unimpressive to customers who lack agents...