Word: digitalizing
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Math education reformers have a prescription for raising the mathematical knowledge of schoolchildren. Do not teach the standard algorithms of arithmetic, such as long addition and multiplication, they say; let the children find their own methods for adding and multiplying two-digit numbers, and for larger numbers, let them use calculators. One determined reformer puts it decisively: "It's time to acknowledge that continuing to teach these skills (i.e., pencil-and-paper computational algorithms) to our students is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive and downright dangerous...
...look at venture capital going forward, we don't expect triple digit returns," says Meyer. He says HMC expects in the long term, venture capital will return 10 percent above the rate of inflation...
...possibility of triple digit returns does not come without some substantial risk, however, Meyer says...
During the past five years of double-digit gains in the Dow, enrollment at residential and day camps has swelled by 8% to 10% a year, to an expected record of 9 million kids this summer. Coincidence? I don't think so. Hundreds of thousands of the little squirts are headed for private residential camps where fees run as high as $125 a day. Our daughter hoped to be bunking with them...
...edition scent, Honeysuckle Splash, in a bottle that has the same shape as the company's 1953 Youth Dew. Lauder's first limited-edition fragrance release was A Garden of Pleasures--three scents that highlighted different notes from the perfume Pleasures, launched in 1995. Says Khoury: "We saw double-digit increases in sales of the core Pleasures fragrance while A Garden of Pleasures was on counter." Dior positioned Lily, its 1999 limited-edition release, as a modern interpretation of the 1956 classic Diorissimo. Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Lancome have all put limited-edition scents into the marketplace. Escada...