Word: core
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Meaningful interactions with professors don't require doing enough research to write a thesis--or any research at all. Some friends and I recently co-hosted a Core class professor for lunch at our House. I think we were all surprised at how much fun we had. It wasn't a stressful who's-done-the-reading atmosphere. On the contrary, it was a refreshingly spontaneous conversation on topics outside the immediate scope of the class. And our professor was sincerely interested in hearing our opinions...
...better cars than the last, for if luxury is not ever replacing itself, it risks becoming mundane. To keep up with this lifestyle, we have to ensure that, whatever we're doing, we're able to finance its demands. But when these demands tend to hollow out any meaningful core to our lives, we should not only pause to reconsider those demands, but we should ultimately question the lifestyle they reflect...
...anthems that bounce and tumble like beach balls on a hardwood floor. "Black & Blue" offers only a slight variation on that very successful approach: the beats aren't quite so rubbery and the melodies are a trifle more subtle than they've been on past Backstreet releases. But the core pattern is still the same: bring the fun on some tracks, bring the love on the others. Repeat...
...important ways. We no longer should be on the defensive about being a tax-and-spend party because we delivered just the opposite. We delivered economic growth. He delivered on law enforcement when the American people used to say Democrats were soft on crime. He hasn't abandoned the core Democratic belief that we should give people an opportunity. Even on defense, he's shown you don't have to have been in the military to be a good Commander in Chief...
Usually, though, spin-offs are about dumping a distracting but often healthy operation to focus on a core business. In such cases, not only does the spin-off stock tend to beat its peers, but the parent stock does too. Why? In the case of the parent, investors value that sharpened focus. In the case of the spin-off, management doesn't have to compete for the parent company's attention and capital. Set free, managers can explore new products and markets...