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Corporate speak via Yahoo Finance
What are we to make of this example?
Brand: Put a good face on. Example: "Okay, so we polluted the groundwater by failing to follow those finicky safety regulations. How should we brand it?"
And of course, people are no longer considered resources to be treasures but capital to be spent:
Human Capital: Human Resources, previously Personnel. ( Read more... ) -
Three More Months of Winter
These are from about two weeks ago. Most of this snow has whittled down to a slippery gray sludge.
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Lifestyle + Choices
I know I'm biased, but I'm often amazed or amused that some of my friends have little or no Internet presence. It's not necessarily just a generational gap, either. Just different lifestyle choices. Those people not on social networking sites probably have more fulfilling lives than many of the people I interact with every day through this computer ( Read more... ) -
Got XTC?
1,000 Umbrellas Open to Spoil the View: XTC's English Legacy
By James Thurston DavisI first encountered XTC around 1982, probably their English Settlement album, probably in my friend Marc's tiny bedroom with the Roger Dean posters on the wall and the cedar chest stuffed with vinyl. I like to think the first thing I remember about that album was ( Read more... ) -
Spam on LJ
An entry I made in grammarpolice just got spammed. It was a comment by a user in China that is trying to sell t-shirts. Has anyone else experienced this? Are we now going to see an influx of sockpuppet journals from China whose only purpose is to spam people's journals and communities in comments? Oi! -
Good one!
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Katrina + 4
Many think Hurricane Katrina was just an unavoidable natural disaster. And it was, if you only look at the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
In the city of New Orleans, Katrina was a man-made disaster, caused by the worst failure of civil engineering in history. All of the flooding in the city was caused by a failure of flood walls designed and constructed ( Read more... )
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