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Finley's strategy is to say "no" to anything that conventional mores say "yes" to, and vice-versa: probably a good idea in general, but nothing we haven't heard before. Little gems like, "Whining is a useful technique for getting your own way, because people will just want to shut you up and will give you just about anything," appear designed to provoke first a raised eyebrow and a burst of scandalized laughter, and then a self-indulgent rethinking of how we conduct our quotidian existences...
...only half-correct in thinking that all possible permutations of the East-meets-West (or vice-versa) story have been exhausted. An American Brat, Bapsi Sidhwa's newest novel, rehashes the most standard of formulas, The Immigrant Experience, with all of the accoutrements of our post-modern world, including duty-free items. Sidhwas's immigrant, the 16-year-old Feroza, comes to America not out of destitution or lack of opportunity; rather, a three month holiday in America offers Feroza relief from the monotony of her life in Lahore, Pakistan...
Only then, when the push to accelerate publishing data before careful reconsideration is minimized, can the public have ultimate trust in the scientific community. And vice-versa...
...commitment to promoting only from within has many ancillary benefits to those fortunate enough to be a part of the company. For one thing, it means that, should you choose P&G (and vice-versa), you can count on being surrounded by other outstanding individuals. In that sense, Procter & Gamble is much like Harvard. Another benefit of P&G's promotion from within is that Procter is firmly committed to the training and development of their people. This means that as an employee of P&G, I am surrounded by tremendous resources which the Company has made available...
...that carried by 1,000 regular computer disks or about 250,000 pages of text. At this point, fewer than 5% of personal computers are equipped with CD-ROM players because no standard exists: a CD- ROM for Apple, for example, does not run on an IBM machine and vice-versa. As a result, the industry is paralyzed; book publishers have made few titles available on CD-ROM, and computer manufacturers have shied away from pushing CD-ROM players...