Word: taling
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...Nonaka's failed turnaround effort is a cautionary tale showing that, while going green may save the world, it may not save your business. With climate change and high oil prices in the headlines, corporations everywhere are rushing to show off their green credentials. But doing your bit to reduce carbon emissions is not the same as basing profits heavily on the sale of environmentally friendly products, a field that-niche-market successes such as the Toyota Prius hybrid car notwithstanding-has yet to reach critical mass...
...framing military obligation in terms of duty and honor, and in which the media's badge of heroism is conferred on those who are merely victims (only for it to be ripped off again when the victims behave less like heroes than heels). It is a sad and miserable tale...
...make better sense of lines like, “Fuck you, Dad. I’ve got bigger plans,” and the book’s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant the set-up, Rich is most skillful in his dialogue. A jittery Abraham pleads to Isaac, “How about some Rocky Road? Chocolate? I’d get you some strawberry, but hey, your name?...
...soap opera—still ongoing—might be comic were it not so gruesome. Name any modern plague and this grim tale has it: drug abuse, squalid greed, extended legal charades, shameless self-promotion, and phony, saccharine sentimentality. Feminists might decry Smith’s complete objectification, priests her unforgivable promiscuity, socialists her avarice—the task is simple: Grab a piece of the story and hold tight...
...sales were reported, but Keret's publishers suspect that Hamas bought the books and burned them, lest ordinary Palestinians read them. That scenario sounds like the perfect beginning to a Keret short story. But given the insight into young Israel's collective psyche that Keret offers up, if the tale is true, it would be a tragedy in itself...