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...going to operate--that can't make sense for consumers. That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones. You'd get uptight. You can't have a distribution channel that is allowed to make your brand meaningless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates: They're Trying to Change the Rules | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Anal: Uptight. Description of your neat-freak roommate who color-codes his CD collection and completes Expos assignments weeks before they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

They don't use four-color click pens, but listening to the myths at the Harvard Law School (HLS) suggests law students may be just as uptight as their medical school colleagues...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Prestige Chase | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...portrait of free-loving primitives shocked contemporaries and inspired generations of college students--especially during the 1960s sexual revolution. But it may have been too good to be true. While few question Mead's brilliance or integrity, subsequent research showed that Samoan society is no more or less uptight than any other. It seems Mead accepted as fact tribal gossip embellished by adolescent Samoan girls happy to tell the visiting scientist what she wanted to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Margaret Mead | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...YORKERS Study shows they're more likely to have heart attacks. No wonder they're so uptight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 15, 1999 | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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