Word: marketed
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...also believes that students are being duped into believing that a B.A. degree will ensure success in the corporate job market. Parker's alarm at what she sees as credential worship leads her to recommend abolishing the B.A. degree in order to shift focus to the value of the education itself...
First, Harvard officials should pledge firmly that the land will be used for open market, not student, housing. Cambridge is chronically in need of new construction to take a little of the pressure off its tight housing market...
This allowed the foreign pioneers of the long-lasting tires, notably Michelin, to seize 7% of the U.S. market. Then, after the domestic firms started producing radials, they were hurt by their very durability. Radials, which now account for about half of all tires sold in the U.S., can be driven for 50,000 miles, or about twice as long as conventional bias-ply tires. While they cost more than bias-plys, radials do not need to be replaced as often...
...than vice versa, and there is no mystery why. The English, by and large, have not been aggressive in sending the work of their living artists abroad, while American museums, foundations and dealers have flooded Europe with every kind of U.S. "product" from abstract expressionism to photorealism. No market, no museum shows: few American museums in recent years have given any hint that England has sculptors younger than Anthony Caro, or painters less celebrated than David Hockney. Thus the Guggenheim Museum's current show, "British Art Now," is doubly interesting. Chosen by the museum's curator of exhibitions...
...boycott. They have ridiculed the idea that a boycott of the Olympics is anything more than an ideological spitball. In fact, both the Soviet government and the Soviet people have relied upon the Moscow Games to secure commodities they have never quite been able to purchase in the market of world opinion: prestige and respectability. Intensely proud and patriotic, they have inherited a centuries-old inferiority complex. They have invested hundreds of millions in the 1980 Games and have gilded every onion dome in Moscow. The Olympics were to be the great Soviet coming-out party...