Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are only a few classes to choose from,and it really takes some foresight in terms ofplanning your curriculum," said Tara B. Purohit'99. "If you are a senior who was banking on thatnext term, you don't have much choice...
...successful in this market, a company must first be considered core, a catch-all term for unbridled living of the extreme- sports go-for-it ethos. "To be perceived as core is alternative-marketing gold," says James Palczynski, vice president and analyst at Needham & Co. If you are selling skatewear, then you had better be a skate rat, and your company had better sponsor a team of top skateboarders. But core is more than an aggressive, participatory attitude. It's also a vibe, a quasi-mystical, anti-Establishment subtext that has to permeate a firm and come across in marketing...
...racetrack, and an alcoholic stepfather. Gates, by contrast, was born into the Seattle upper crust, his father a lawyer and his mother president of the Junior League. Gates was a skinny prep school kid who spent all his free time in the computer lab--a nerd before the term was invented, a former teacher once said. Clinton, even in his schoolboy days, was the smooth saxophone player who used his music to meet women...
...Supreme Court has applied sexual-harassment law liberally in a number of recent cases. In two rulings last term it decided that same-gender workplace harassment is actionable and that schools can be responsible for the sexual misbehavior of teachers. But during oral arguments in the Davis case last week, the Justices made it clear that they were troubled by this case. Only a few sentences into her argument, the Davises' lawyer was stopped by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "I'm sure children nationwide tease each other," she said. "Is every one of those incidents going to lead...
...giving the child a sense of autonomy," says Brazelton, "we reduced the incidence of problems from the national average of 8% to about 1%." Brazelton's results, reported in the journal Pediatrics, transformed the way most parents do toilet training. Even the term was recast as the kinder, gentler "toilet teaching...