Word: littering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is most injured by HBS's lackluster handling of this situation is the business world itself. If they learn from the school's decision, these men will go forward into this world believing that the only consequence of treating others inappropriately is having to pick up a little litter later...
...single ownership of the project by Holmes will also lead to more responsible business practices. By owning the property and buildings of the shopping and residential plaza, Holmes will have a strong incentive to internalize any external costs, such as stores that create a lot of litter or noise. It will select "compatible" stores that are attractive to its consumers...
Amongst the cutthroat competition of the mom-and-pop music stores that litter Mass. Ave, Tower Records somehow manages to stay in business, proving that multimillion-dollar corporations can still survive in alternative-era Boston...
Will it work? A better question might be, Do we want it to? Road-rage therapists come perilously close to calling for a transformation of the national character--remaking our rough-and-tumble, highly individualistic country into a large-scale version of a college town where everyone recycles kitty litter, drinks latte, listens to Enya and eats whole grains. Is that really what we want? For all its dangers, road rage may simply be a corruption of those qualities that Americans have traditionally, and rightly, admired: tenacity, energy, competitiveness, hustle--something, in other words, to be contained and harnessed...
...little upset. The cat needs to have a room of his own. Fortunately, they have a lot to choose from." Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a veterinary behaviorist at Texas A&M, agrees. "The biggest problem you worry about is that the dog can bother the cat around the litter-box area. The cat gets all postured and ready to eliminate and along comes this pest. So a lot of them stop using the litter...