Word: tailorization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...October, head for the Cape Winemakers Guild auction, www.capewinemakersguild.com, to be held this year on Oct. 3. Or try the Soweto Wine Festival, www.sowetowinefestival.co.za, on Sept. 4-5. If you're overseas, contact an exporter like Wine Cellar, www.winecellar.co.za, or Caroline's Fine Wine Cellar, carolineswine.com. Both assemble tailor-made consignments and ship to your door. The word this year is that the sauvignon blancs, always good, may be great enough to reconquer Europe all over again...
...safari company Karisia, www.karisia.com - run by husband-and-wife team Kerry Glen and Jamie Christian - has been organizing tailor-made expeditions and promoting conservation work in the Laikipia and Samburu regions of central and northwestern Kenya for five years. Christian says the safaris enable them to pursue their passion for conservation. "The idea is to get people to appreciate nature through traveling here and supporting the local communities, so they in turn become inspired to protect the animals and everything around them...
...companies struggle to keep afloat in an age of abundance, Anderson posits a provocative solution: give your wares away gratis. An idea "as powerful as it is misunderstood," Free has become a multibillion-dollar business model tailor-made for the Internet economy. As digital-infrastructure costs approach zero, Anderson argues that Free often pays off, whether it involves giving away cell phones to hawk monthly plans or embracing piracy to spark demand for merchandise. He also explains how charging even a penny can scramble consumer psychology and sketches a blueprint for competing with juggernauts, like Google, that have harnessed...
...politician for whom the adjective "cautious" seems tailor-made. But in the aftermath of the July 17 bombing of two luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono showed a new face to his nation. The attacks, which came just nine days after his resounding re-election, had deflated what was supposed to be a period of celebration. And so, just hours after suicide bombers struck the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels nearly simultaneously, killing at least seven bystanders, Yudhoyono addressed his country in an uncharacteristically emotional speech...
...energy, which mostly still comes from carbon-intensive fossil fuels like coal. That's partially true - the whole point behind cap and trade is to raise the cost of emitting carbon and drive investment in energy efficiency and renewable power. "No matter how you doctor it or tailor it, it is a tax," said Representative Joe Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican...