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...author of the Beloit College Mindset List, I was happy to see Nancy Gibbs use it as a topic for her Essay [Sept. 21]. Even more welcome is that she infers from the list what my co-author and I do: that Arthur C. Clarke was right about the perils of predicting that any future technology is impossible. Such bold statements are likely to be wrong...
...This may be the flaw in China's strategy to nourish private-sector enterprises. If SMEs are to tap the capital markets for steady and sustainable financing, investors must be willing to support them for the long term. Unfortunately, the market's current get-rich-quick mindset cannot be changed overnight. Hong Kong, a more mature financial center, launched a GEM board 10 years ago. It has not been a notable success, with just 172 companies and total market capitalization of $11 billion - equal to 0.6% of the main board...
Every fall the professors at Beloit College publish their Mindset List, a dictionary of all the deeply ingrained cultural references that will make no sense to the bright-eyed students of the incoming class. It's a kind of time travel, to remind us how far we've come. This year's freshmen were typically born in 1991. That means, the authors explain, they have never used a card catalog to find a book; salsa has always outsold ketchup; women have always outnumbered men in college. There has always been blue Jell...
...We’ve gone into every single game with the mindset that we’re going to win...New Hampshire has always been a good matchup for us,” Ono Horn said...
...worked out with my coach, focusing on fitness and just trying to get healthy.”She, like Green and her teammates, saw this weekend as a true team bonding experience, despite the fact it was an individual competition.“There was an individual, but team mindset,” Green said. “The girls were able to bond and get more familiar with each other, while showing their stuff on the court.”Though the spring season is months away, this past weekend’s performance by Cao and Tachibana...