Word: syncing
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Instructive, but we're still talking about burgers. What makes the Snyders' story worth reading is that it's as much cultural history as corporate. The company evolved in perfect sync with postwar Southern California, whose car culture and highway-fed suburbs blossomed as In-N-Out was building the first drive-throughs...
...Today, the impact of rural life on China’s cultural consciousness is dwindling. “The post-Zhang Yimou generation is much better equipped to show the dynamics of the urban texture, the urban lifestyle. They are very much in sync with global culture,” Wang says. “But everything comes with a price. That kind of larger cultural vision seems to have been lost...
...it’s not just Israel’s problem. When it comes to the threat presented by a nuclear Iran, Israel’s and America’s interests are firmly in sync. The threat to Israel is obvious, and Israel is by far the United States’s strongest ally in the region and the most stable, prosperous, democratic, and advanced nation in that part of the world. But, in addition to that, the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapon would create a strong incentive for other Arab states to develop nuclear weapons. If Iran...
...Stop taking quizzes. Nobody cares what literary time period you are. 2. If you sync your Twitter account to Facebook so that you fill others' news feeds with a constant stream of mundane updates and references to people with little @ symbols before their names, be prepared for people to de-friend you. Maybe even in real life. (Read "25 More Things I Didn't Want to Learn About You On Facebook.") 3. Don't friend someone you don't actually know 4. If you must friend someone you don't know, include a message explaining why you are doing...
...horizontal, weaving left to right; economics on the vertical, weaving up and down. Each affects the other, but unpredictably. A political or economic era can be as brief as 10 years or as long as a quarter-century, but the politics and economics don't move obviously in sync. Prosperity, for instance, can reinforce the "natural" political shift toward the right, as it did after World War II and for most of the past 25 years, but it can also accelerate a turn to the left, as it did in the early 1960s. Or the social discombobulations provoked...