Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...slight, 136-pound teenager, with pimples, big ears and a face he thought of as so bland it amounted to invisibility, he had few friends at school. In practically every thing he did at St. Paul Central High, he felt underestimated by teachers, coaches and peers. No one ever gave him credit for his drawing, or for playing a superior game of golf. "It took me a long time to become a human being," he once said. "I never regarded myself as being much and I never regarded myself as being good-looking and I never had a date...
...Sensitive to slights, he never forgot the rejections of Central High. To the end of his life he remained baffled that the editors of the "Cehisean," the Central High yearbook, had rejected a batch of his drawings. At the age of 53, he made sure that a high school report card was printed in facsimile in a collection of his work "to show my own children that I was not as dumb as everyone has said I was." He sustained the traumas of his adolescence far into adulthood - far enough, in the end, to see them become a crucial element...
...relaunching Netscape next year, positioning the browser as the central clearinghouse for Time Warner's content. That's not prime Internet real estate, and there are some murmurs within Time Warner that AOL's quest for its own content is exceeded by its lust for rent-paying deals. Don't expect Time Inc.'s Money.com to replace CBS MarketWatch on AOL anytime soon...
...targeting runaway stock prices in a bull market? These are provocative questions that take on added weight in America's newfound equity culture. Half of all households now directly own stock or stock mutual funds. We all have a stake in whether the Greenspan Fed has reinterpreted its central charter to include managing the stock market as a means of managing inflation...
...Males have not, as a rule, joined [this writer's] fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: they are seldom the central figures in the author's world...