Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Everybody you meet at Apple will echo that precise sentiment, in almost Stepford-like unison. Not only have they all drunk the Kool-Aid; they all have the same favorite flavor. They're on a hot streak, and they know it. ("The Sony guys are over there across the street with binoculars," jokes a senior vice president. "They rented space on the fourth floor." High-tech trash talk!) It's almost eerie: Apple employees all like one another, and they have a strong sense that they are the chosen of the earth, and they're not going...
...fine sentiment. But even those who take the Party at face value know how difficult it can be to get local governments to follow Beijing's lead. China does have enlightened laws on the books, but often they are ignored. Activists like Lu seek to ensure the laws are obeyed. "We're seeing a real grassroots movement organized around local abuses, and that's never happened in China's 25 years of reform," says Robin Munro of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, a workers' rights group. Campaigners are working in the one area where China has true democracy...
...pressure,” senior goalie Ryan Johnson said. “We have some young guys who we’re bringing up who can hopefully get us back to where we were at the start of the season.” Others on the team share this sentiment regarding the development of previously inexperienced underclassmen in the defensive backfield. “We’ve had to adjust since the beginning of year because of injuries and having people play in spots they aren’t familiar with,” Craig said...
...make everyone in the room uncomfortable. He may just be the only world-famous filmmaker in existence who will turn into a nervous wreck in the presence of college journalists. All of this, of course, makes him devastatingly charming, in a shy kid-brother sort of way. That same sentiment can be applied to his work, in which the some of the most adorable characters ever put on screen are made from children’s modeling clay. Wallace and Gromit themselves were among Park’s first creations, brainstormed as part of a graduate project while...
...social life problem, Harvard students like him have long had a different idea. “Only a centrally located student center can truly provide the catalyst for the blossoming of student life on campus,” wrote The Crimson editorial staff last week, echoing a long-held sentiment. “I think a centralized student center would be the ideal thing,” says Mather HoCo co-chair Ryan “Trini” Abraham ’06, “because it would have that title, it would have that function, and everybody...