Word: slating
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INDICATORS Feeling The Tremors A slate of Europe's battered insurers cut dividends last week, including Aviva, Zurich Financial, AXA and Swiss Re, which trimmed payouts for the first time since the San Francisco earthquake...
With control of J's heavily urban roster and RCA's diverse slate--which includes the Dave Matthews Band, Christina Aguilera, the Strokes and Foo Fighters--Davis is again the most high-profile executive in the business. Still, he insists, "my job now is the same as ever. That is, deliver transcendent talent." In title, Davis is RCA's president of artist and repertoire; in reality he is too famous to scout talent (the competition circles at the sight of him), and as even he reluctantly admits, he's too old to be going out every night. Since his move...
...fate of Hunan Media Group, once China's funkiest broadcaster. In the 1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords while tossing basketballs at a hoop. Hunan grew so successful that in 1998 it became the first TV studio...
Books such as Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language and How the Mind Works, as well as frequent contributions to publications like The New York Times and Slate, have made Pinker a celebrity among intellectuals and psychology experts...
Pinker’s most recent book, The Blank Slate, was a bestseller. In the book, he attempted to debunk the well-known idea that we are born as “blank slates...