Word: tap
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Final clubbers have it easy. They tap into their club’s trust fund and open the doors to their mansion to a selective guest list. Then they’ve got a (supposedly) killer bash—and most importantly, an identity. As for the guests, they let their friends or boyfriends have a direct position of power over them. Fall out with one member, fall out with all, right? The label (and the late-night parties) are so important to people that they put up with all sorts of indignities—even the threat of sexual...
...such a massive scale right under his nose. As the jury heard, this was a man so obsessed with saving a buck that he sniffed out $18,000 in cost overruns in a $3 billion budget, fretted about coffee-filter expenses and wanted the bottled-water machine filled with tap water. Penny pinching like that had made him a cult hero on Wall Street--and an improbable dupe to a jury...
...What works in China may not work in America, and vice versa," says Morton, 37. U.S. managers tend to air problems publicly and resolve them through collaboration, whereas Chinese managers--accustomed to hierarchical reporting structures--prefer to handle conflict privately, so that no one loses face. Crimson's companies tap ethnic-Chinese executives trained in international business practices to manage the work forces there. Along with financial payoffs, Ho gets the satisfaction of carrying on his father's legacy. "He always wanted to link the U.S. and China in a positive way, and I'm helping to make that happen...
...really hard to blame a person for feeling that way. Kentucky-based Slint were like the Emily Dickinson of indie rock—a band that recorded two albums in obscurity back in 1989 and 1991 and broke up before the public even had a chance to tap into their life-changing sound...
...computer that sent the message was a perfectly ordinary one as well: an IBM-type PC parked in the spare bedroom of their ranch-style house in Scottsdale, Arizona. But on the Internet, even a single computer can wield enormous power, and last April this one, with only a tap on the enter key, stirred up an international controversy that continues to this...