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...attempt to make shopping for insurance a more consumer-friendly experience, Aetna asks how big a BodyGuard plan you need. WellPoint's Tonik line lets you decide whether you are a Thrill-Seeker, a Part-Time Daredevil or a Calculated Risk-Taker (choices that come down to less fun details like the size of your co-payment or deductible). Such edgy marketing aims to attract Americans ages 19 to 29--nearly a third of these so-called young immortals forgo insurance because they think they either don't need it or can't afford it. Carriers are also starting...
...viewer in a more significant way, resulting in a pointed absence of emotion that stems from the work’s lack of originality. Her reasons for piecing together this exhibit could be simple. Discovering and purchasing each dollhouse, whether on eBay or in person, was clearly a thrill, and she has said that she enjoyed unpacking the houses and observing their meticulous detail. The rest of the work featured in the exhibit illustrates her appreciation for the look and feel of things. From the early drawings she did with acrylic and correction fluid on Chartwell paper, showing her preoccupation...
That's why a one-nighter with the stranger on holiday is a lot sexier than any tryst you'd have back home. Call it the thrill of the new or the out-of-towner glow, but whatever the explanation, a simple change in scenery can snap people out of their crackling dry spell and morph them into human catnip...
...Quotes by Krugman: "Washington was first thrilling, then disillusioning...Some people get addicted to that thrill, and will do anything to stay near the center. After a little while, however, I began to notice how policy decisions are really made. The fact is that most senior officials have no idea what they are talking about: discussion at high-level meetings is startlingly primitive." ("Incidents from My Career...
...prevailing tastes might impede progress and override creativity. Fresh-out-of-art-school artists can make a decent living doing so, selling as much to new Chinese money as they can to naïve Manhattanites most likely inspired by an article in Sunday Styles to go on a thrill trip and get their hands on the next big thing...