Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Globe, Writer John Powers noted that on today's college campuses, "Big Man has been supplanted by a dozen or more mid-sized BMOCs (and increasingly, BWOCs) who operate in decidedly narrow orbits." Nowhere is that more true than here. It is no wonder that an admissions process that favors overachievers should produce a campus with seemingly more clubs, groups, teams and organizations than students. Amid the alphabet soup of student groups it's hard enough just to keep track of who the leaders are, much less determine how to allocate our finite capital of esteem (after...
Finer described the selection process as "very stressful...
...example of "corporate welfare" is a mistake. Ex-Im provides market-rate loans--not grants--to help any exporting company, regardless of size, sell abroad. The $5 billion Congress appropriated to Ex-Im over the past six years has been repaid or is in the process of being repaid! Also, there are 77 other foreign-government export-credit agencies already helping their local companies seize export opportunities from American workers. If there were no Ex-Im, most likely Europe's Airbus would win many, if not all, of the foreign aircraft deals away from Boeing, thus displacing even more American...
...spritz-happy, some too eager to confront you about your shiny forehead. Chances are the beauty product you're looking for is under glass, off limits to mere customers. According to at least one market-research survey on the way cosmetics are presented and pitched in stores, the entire process "inhibits friendliness...
Creating these special TIME 100 issues involves a two-step process. As Business editor Bill Saporito, who oversaw this chapter with executive editor Steve Koepp, puts it, "First we argue about who should be on the list; then we argue about who should write the stories." Here, a few of our selections...