Word: strayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take prices. For the past 18 months, the company has been raising some prices selectively, and consumers have begun to stray. "Comp sales," an internal company statistic that tracks performance in existing stores, turned negative for six consecutive quarters through the third quarter of 1996, an unheard-of reversal for a company that lives on growth. Greenberg had to improve McDonald's value equation fast. "The question is, What do you do about that? Lower prices a couple of cents on everything, or go on TV and talk about 55[cent] meals?" He called the media department...
Many students who seek advice at OCS are hesitant to break the mold and stray away from high-paying, and often high-status careers in business, medicine...
Jessica H. Fong '99 was too busy focusing on the computer in front of her to let her attention stray. Fong, who is hearing impaired, had to "listen" to the music through the ears of the typist who transcribed the words of the opera into words on a screen...
...unslamable, the songs tend to root audience members, who are used to being able to recline in their sweet darkness (or their lover's sweet arms!), to a double-footed position on the floor, nearly impassive, as if unwittingly having looked upon a semi-hand-some, but helplessly stray, masculine Medusa. Sadness' vicar...
Lead singer Mark Kozelek is a semihandsome, but hlplessly stray; masculine Medusa. Sadness' vicar...