Word: latching
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...problem with all such trends is that they often trivialize themselves into fads, easy to latch onto and easier to drop. Perhaps the key to the fat-and-fit movement is that there is no one key. In our effort to get healthy and look great, we have created an environment so hostile to the idea of obesity that overweight people have become marginalized, giving up on their well-being and sometimes failing to show up even for such routine tests as Pap smears and mammograms for fear of being hectored about their weight by their doctors...
...fact, it's the challenge of getting it just right--of capturing exactly what America wants--that Wynn finds intoxicating. Looking back, he has little sentimentality for his earlier projects. "I don't latch onto things. They're just exercises in practicing my trade," he says. But in the thick of creation, he's fully engaged. "The 21/2 years of designing this hotel were like 90 days to me. No one saw me. I worked six days a week, and I was in ecstasy," he says. "Then we had to get financing, and that was work." It dawned on Wynn...
...more rivals close in, the more disciplined Toyota seems to become. Since the Camry started slipping in the quality scores, managers have drilled into the consumer surveys, reading customer comments to fix peeves as minute as the sound of the trunk latch. As for eliminating waste, says Gary Convis, president of the Georgetown plant, "we're never satisfied." Convis says Toyota has cut the delivery time for custom models from 10 weeks to 10 days, and that his facility has reduced some manufacturing costs by as much as 70%. A group of assembly workers from the plant went...
Indeed, this new setting is the appeal the MFA is hoping concert-goers will latch onto. The museum’s 380-seat theatre, part of a modern expansion designed by I.M. Pei in 1981, provides an intimate, seated space in which to enjoy serene sounds...
Then again, why even bother considering what Harvard would be without Welch? After all, who wouldn’t want to latch on to a program on the verge of a return to national prominence...