Word: sheering
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...French government critic, "you're either a journalist or a functionary of the foreign minister, not both." But the ambition of running parallel editorial operations in English and French on a $112 million budget annual budget - about a fifth of CNN's - earns points at the very least for sheer panache. Can France really make waves in a market dominated by CNN, the BBC and the newly launched Al Jazeera International...
...says the scientific literature can become skewed overall toward commercial ends when certain hypotheses ?those favorable to industry - are investigated more often than others, and when scientists only publish their results selectively. Industry scientists say that's nonsense. Greg Miller, executive VP of innovation for National Dairy Council, says sheer volume of results doesn't mean much. "As a scientist I'm more interested in the quality of the research," he says. And the PloS Medicine study looks only at the absolute number of favorable vs. unfavorable results, not at the nature of the research undertaken or at how much...
...high-profile environmental initiatives over the past year, including the construction of experimental green stores in Texas and Colorado and the launch of a campaign to sell ultraefficient compact fluorescent bulbs to 100 million homes. The real power of Wal-Mart to drive environmental change, however, rests in its sheer size, by which it can influence the behavior of the more than 60,000 companies, large and small, that stock its stores. The "Wal-Mart price"--the corporation's drive for the lowest possible cost, at all costs--ensured that only the leanest companies would survive to do business with...
...interactions, how to use the equipment, etc. But questions beyond basic ones are usually answered with "I'll have to get back to you on that." They encourage us, though, with smiles, samples and glossy cards with easy-to-understand graphics. Perhaps more encouraging are their compliments and the sheer confidence they exude in the fine, expensive products they sell...
...popping $33.4 billion, and he changed the ownership structure of the firm to reduce his family's dominant stake. But in late July, almost six months after his initial foray, Mittal had his prize. He admits that the personal attacks were wounding. Yet ultimately they came to naught: through sheer obstinacy and financial savvy, Mittal, 56, overcame every sort of political, personal and financial objection to forge a global steel titan, a 120-million-ton-per-year company whose vast size and range, in theory, should enable it to ride out the ups and downs of a notoriously cyclical industry...