Word: voids
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...trying to be mini--Tom Peters," says Parks, a 20-year veteran of the firm. "[But] some people in the organization had tom peters tattooed on their arm." In fact, some key players who had followed Peters into the company eventually followed him out. Ron Crossland stepped into the void but in January passed the management torch to Thompson while remaining as chairman...
...that is free from or unconstrained by ideology. But his own explanation of the concept is wholly unclear. As Gao describes it, the premise of “without isms” is “‘being without’; it is not premised on a void, because then there would be no premise, of course no conclusion, and not even any isms.” Huh?The remainder of the essay details what “without isms” is not, but gets even more confusing. It is not empiricism but it is related...
Conservatives are depressed. "Key G.O.P. constituency feeling glum," declared a recent headline in the Washington Post. "Void on the right," added columnist Robert Novak. Surveying last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), The Politico detected "a mood of gloom...
Facebook is ubiquitous, but perhaps not universal. Three Harvard students have developed a new social networking site, Vostu.com, that they say will fill a void left by online communities in which English is the lingua franca. The Spanish-language interface, publicly launched at the end of February, is intended to help connect the Latin American community, according to founders Joshua Kushner ’08, Daniel E. Kafie ’05, and Harvard Business School student Mario T. Schlosser. Even though membership is currently by invitation only, Vostu.com has accrued over 600 members—mostly from Argentina, Peru...
Harvard assumes, not always without reason, that its American undergraduates possess scant knowledge of European and Ancient History. To fill this void, the college offers courses such as History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From Antiquity to 1650” and History 10b, which does the same job from 1648 up to the present...