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...Element, the automaker has one of Gen Y's most popular brands, in large part because its durable little Civic scored with hot rodders who decided to customize it with turbochargers, flashy rims and other trimmings. Honda now holds 12% of the under-25 market (the favored industry shorthand for Gen Y) vs. a 6% share of the overall market, according to the research firm J.D. Power. The mystery is that the Civic was not particularly designed for or targeted to young drivers. Says Bulin: "A generation of kids looked around and couldn't find anything in synch with what...
This idea gets at Gilligan’s definition of patriarchy. She said the word’s roots are linked to the ancient word for priests who were trusted to be the ministers of knowledge, and she uses the term as shorthand for people not trusting what they know from their own experience...
Unlike its neighbor MIT, Harvard’s admissions office is less willing to bank on the “folder,” admissions shorthand for a prospective student, with only the promise of “untapped potential,” McGrath Lewis says...
...privileges that were available to Harvard were not available to us. It was a different era all together. We were just being educated to be helpmeets to ‘the great man.’ Radcliffe at the time offered a class in the summer in typing and shorthand so that we could get jobs after we graduated...
Mimi was another slender, pretty, pleasant young thing wandering in the White House corridors, looking for a desk and something to do that did not require shorthand or typing or any other known secretarial skill. How a senior at Miss Porter's School captivated a swinging and sophisticated President is a mystery not yet solved - or perhaps it is. J.F.K. was captivated pretty easily. Testimony by some of Kennedy's girls is that he was a lousy and hurried lover, but who cared when it was the leader of the free world, with all the trappings of power like...