Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...effort to bring affordable drugs to the developing world. While some kind of compromise will probably be reached between the diplomats and drug companies, says Dowell, it's unclear what the terms will be. As the pharmaceutical firms know, profit can inspire robust defense - but fierce public sentiment could buoy the U.N. position, clearing the way for more accessible AIDS therapy in the countries where the need is so great...
...Many people feel this is such a monumental problem it surpasses market issues," says Dowell. Stay tuned to see if the U.N. can convince the drug companies to buy into that distinctly non-capitalist sentiment...
...This entertainment industry push reflects the larger defection of the civil rights movement from the public to the private sector. In recent years, leaders such as Jesse Jackson have peppered industry leaders with the mantra that a minority focus makes good business sense - a sentiment repeated by NBC's Wright Wednesday. A big question now facing the TV industry is whether upstarts UPN and the WB network (owned by TIME.com parent Time Warner), which built their viewership largely on minority-oriented programming, will go the way of third political parties that become marginalized once their issues are picked...
Should you lack adequate funds or GMAT scores to attend Harvard Business School, Bing offers alternative strategies for conquering any industry--provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency and, if need be, close family members. His slim, sardonic primer on workplace ruthlessness applies the teachings of the man he calls "the first truly modern amoral thinker" to the modern business world, where malevolence and blinding self-love are demonstrated assets. With sly humor, Bing answers the book's title question in brief chapters with such headings as "He would do what he feels like doing, you idiot." Would...