Word: sentimentalization
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Today the majority of Asia's publicly owned companies are still family controlled, and the manner in which control is exercised often can be boiled down to one sentiment: a family business is the family's business. For decades top jobs at such companies have been passed down from fathers to sons and daughters, not to professional managers outside the clan. Profits have been used to shore up a sister (or cousin) company instead of going to shareholders. But if you talk to the patriarchs and scions of the families that own Asia, they will tell you that...
...sweet sentiment, which is echoed in the closing moments of the new Australian film Strange Bedfellows. On the stage at a country firemen's ball, sexagenarian mechanic Ralph Williams (Michael Caton) professes his love for local projectionist Vince Hopgood (Paul Hogan). Whether it's more than platonic he refuses to tell. Judge us as people first, he says. To the other townsfolk of Yackandandah, he and Vince have been sending out mixed messages. Hitherto heterosexual, a widower and divorc? respectively, they've shacked up together and been spied draping their lounge room in rainbow flags and befriending the local hairdresser...
Johnson’s campaign chair Sarah K. Burke ’05 echoed this sentiment, saying that although Wolf is a “fantastic candidate,” her ties to the Democratic Party force her to toe the party line at the expense of following the will of her liberal constituency...
...faculty members share the sentiment that the College ought to do more to actively promote study abroad. Professor of Psychology Daniel M. Wegner says he feels Harvard needs only ensure that students who wish to go abroad are able to do so, not that it actively converts students to the idea of study abroad...
...sentiment of the working group has been very open,” Frieden said...