Every once in a while, a storyboard, layout or copy will come back from the approval process better than when it left. More concise, more compelling, more persuasive. But more often the edges get knocked off. Arresting phrases and provocative visuals get homogenized. And three more selling points worm their...
Throughout your career, you've accomplished many feats, exceeded several goals and mastered countless skills. Now you're on yet another job hunt and you can't remember a lick of any of it. Such is the importance of keeping your resume up-to-date, whether you're looking for a job or not. When you...
Q: Who are "the new geographers" and how are they redefining how we look at and get around in the world? A: Digital maps are booming, two-dimensional computerized representations of the world that are generating scores of new words and phrases, says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum...
The true English rose - large, fragrant and reared on fresh air - has become a rare sight. But one farmer is leading a revival. Sophie Morris meets her The phrase "English rose" is often used to describe a girl with a pale complexion and a bloom...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's statement that he would consider agreeing to a scheduled withdrawal of U.S. troops from his country brings up one of the great canards of the Iraq war: the idea that giving a "date certain" for drawing down our forces helps the enemy. The...
I saw a dispiriting newspaper placard the other day. "Yet another knife killing" it read... and this was before the weekend had added more deaths to the running total. And what struck me as depressing about that poster, one of those used to sell the late edition of a London...
PROVO -- A judge is considering whether to pursue or throw out the case of a man who says he was waterboarded during a motivational exercise at work. Chad Hudgens, who formerly worked for Prosper Inc., a Provo motivational coaching company, filed a lawsuit against team manager...
Recordant's technology, analytics and consulting solutions to raise standards of call-center customer service ALPHARETTA, Ga., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Recordant, the sole provider of audio-capture technology solutions that generate meaningful and actionable intelligence from organizations' direct interactions with the public, today announced an integrated technology, analytics and...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bill Cosby continues to do a world of good. With his longtime collaborator Alvin F. Poussaint, he took to the pages of USA Today for some very straight talk. "Why do we persist in blaming the black family crisis on 'unwed mothers'?" he asked. What about...
ASHVILLE, N.C. -- The phrase, "international salt talks" takes on a whole new meaning as ingredients-savvy consumers worldwide demand healthy salt in their diets. Throughout history, the world's populations have had a hearty interest in salt--sometimes financial, sometimes as a trade commodity, sometimes religious, sometimes medicinal--but always as a flavor-enhancing...
The 5-minute Interview Paul Andrew Williams Writer and director Williams, 34, is best known for his thriller 'London to Brighton'. His latest work, 'The Cottage', is a comic horror movie. If I weren't talking to you...
The excellent editorial "End knee-jerk condemnation" (July 11) is only slightly marred by the statement that Johnnie Cochran coined the phrase: "rush to judgment" during the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial. That phrase was then in common use from Mark Lane's 1992 book titled "Rush to Judgment," blasting the Warren Commission's...
John F Kennedy's father, Joseph P Kennedy, is credited with the wisdom which advocates "when the going gets tough, the tough get going". Phrased in hard-ball language, all Joe Kennedy meant was that running away from a hard problem was no solution at all. As the by-election...
Nationalism's appeal should be ignored NATIONALIST movements all over the world during the past two centuries have similarities that are quite uncanny. There is almost always a charismatic, arrogant, ego-driven leader; this leader is usually distrusted by many in his own movement but their...
Philosophy In the face of death and pain, the plucky ancients found philosophising an effective analgesic The Book of Dead Philosophers By Simon Critchley Granta Pounds 15.99 Philosophers, if they are to win public trust, cannot go all coy...
Liam Finn I'll Be Lightning TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS Considering that he wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, produced, engineered and even self-timed the cover photo, the only surprise here is that Liam Finn has not written his own reviews. Had he, this might have contained phrases...
THE SENIOR POLITICIAN Baron Dixon-Smith, a Tory frontbencher and one of the country's senior peers, found himself in the middle of a race row last week when he used the phrase "nigger in the woodpile" during a Lords debate on the Housing and Regeneration Bill. After an...
The stock market is down. The cost of gasoline is up -- and up, and up. America's budget deficit is skyrocketing. Banks are hunkered down in a defensive stance. The media would have you believe that every other person is being foreclosed out of their homes. So...
Your columnists are providing a midsummer, two-part review of Utah's political parties as the election season progresses. This week: the Republicans. Pignanelli: Former speechwriter to President George Bush the elder, Peggy Noonan has impeccable Republican credentials (she coined the phrase "a thousand points of...
It is probably just as well that the Ray Lewis fiasco happened to Boris Johnson as Mayor, because otherwise it might have happened to David Cameron as Prime Minister. As soon as he became Conservative leader, Mr Cameron went round to see Mr Lewis's Eastside Young Leaders Academy. It was...
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