Word: slating
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Cross sells several products that are also available at nearby Bob Slate Stationers and Black Ink. For example, Black Ink sells a metallic credit card case that is nearly identical to one sold at Cross. The case costs $5.95 at Black Ink and $12.00 at Cross. Bob Slate also has a Cross pen case at its Mass. Ave. location...
Employees at Black Ink and Bob Slate would not comment yesterday on whether the Cross opening would hurt their business, because they said they had not yet visited the Cross store...
...Harvard psychologist didn't look like a rock star, he would still play to packed houses on the lecture circuit. He has something rare among top-tier scholars, an ability to convey complex ideas with clarity, flair and wit. That's one reason his books--most recently, The Blank Slate--make best-seller lists even as they make waves in academia. The other reason is those waves in academia. Pinker is on the forefront of an intellectual sea change...
Decades of social-science dogma depicted the human mind as having few built-in features--kind of like a computer with no programs, a blank slate. Pinker, along with others in the young field of evolutionary psychology, disagrees. For starters, he argued in The Language Instinct, we have a genetically based word processor, engineered by natural selection. Among the other legacies of natural selection, say the new Darwinians, are such impulses as jealousy and vengefulness. So Pinker draws fire from those who ascribe all ills to the corruption of pristine souls. But evolutionary psychology has a brighter side: love...
Also released at last night’s banquet was the 2004-2005 schedule, a slate that includes a number of tough out of conference games, some long distance holiday trips, and a number of appealing home games that will hopefully draw sizable crowds to Bright Hockey Center...