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Forsberg's decision to return a no-brainer
Even if Peter Forsberg's gimpy right foot prevents him from returning to the days when he skated as a hockey master, the Colorado Avalanche's $1 million spending spree will be worth it. Look at the Forsberg signing as an advertising campaign. The Avalanche wants...
Tags: athlete, NHL, skeptic
Research articles 2008-02-27
Critics helped motivate team to bowl game
FORT WORTH, Texas - They can smile now. Air Force defeated all the doubters. A team that looked destined for nothing instead traveled to its first bowl game since 2002. Critics deserve a smidgen of credit for the Falcons' rise. Their questions helped fuel Air Force's transformation....
Tags: Air Force, Games, skeptic, Strategy, team
Research articles 2007-12-31
Pass the hanky: hard-core skeptics don't respond to facts, but they do respond to tugs at their hearts.(THE STRAIGHT DOPE: THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH)(Brief Article)
Don't try to tell a die-hard skeptic that your low-E windows, energy-efficient HVAC, or Energy Star appliances will save him 35 percent a year on his utility bills. He's not going to believe it. Chances are, he won't even look at the ad because as soon as...
Tags: advertisement, Construction, skeptic, University of Washington
Research articles 2005-11-01
Former US administrator says Iraq vote a rebuke to skeptics
WASHINGTON AFP — Paul Bremer, the former US civilian administrator in Iraq called national elections there a rebuke to naysayers who insisted balloting in the violence-torn country could not be held. "It's a great victory for the Iraqi people, for democracy and for the president's message of freedom," Bremer...
Tags: administrator, Agence France-Presse, democracy, Government, Iraq, rebuke, skeptic, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2005-01-31
Top-Down Productivity
Top-Down ProductivityDon't walk, run to his bookIt's a quick read, super practical, and better than all the old methods. But you have to be disciplined. Getting Things Done is the book. The cult is GTD.Hardened old geezer laughs: The latest management trend?...at least this time, it treats people like they...
Tags: cult, cynic, Getting Things Done, skeptic, theory, Top-Down Productivity
Discussion threads 2007-02-22
Holding intergovernmental institutions to account
Concerns about order and justice in the globalizing world economy have often been addressed to international organizations. Protesters gather in large numbers around meetings of the International Monetary Fund IMF and the World Bank in order to highlight perceived injustices wrought by these organizations. More and more, these demonstrations have...
Tags: accountability, bank, board, decision-making, FINANCE, government, IMF, Skeptic, World Bank
Research articles 2003-04-01
News of the weak in review.(Andrew Card Jr., Washington D.C.)(Brief Article)
* White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr. assured skeptics that the timing of the effort to sell the invasion of Iraq was intentional, not a response to rising doubts. "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August," said Card. ...
Tags: invasion, Iraq, MARKETING, skeptic, White House
Research articles 2002-09-30
Campaigning in the Balkans. - Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark - War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals by David Halberstam - book review
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 512 pp. $30.00 [ISBN: 1-58648-043-X] War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals by David Halberstam New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. 543 pp. $28.00 [ISBN: 0-7432-0212-0]...
Tags: Clark, Government, Pentagon, skeptic
Research articles 2002-06-22
Optimistic skepticism
CTO CONNECTIONThe promise of Web services is there, but providers andcustomers need to know the downsideTWO WEEKS AGO, I had the privilege of attending and moderating two panel discussions at InfoWorld's Next Generation Web Services conference in San Francisco. The attendees and panelists seemed clearly divided into two camps: skeptical...
Tags: conference, InfoWorld, MARKETING, network, skeptic, SOFTWARE, Web
Research articles 2002-01-28
BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...
Tags: Atlantic, Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Newton, Plato, Princeton University, Robert, Skeptic, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford
Research articles 2000-10-01
Liberalization and democratization: the forum and the hearth in the era of cosmopolitan post-industrial capitalism.(symposium on privatization)
SOL PICCIOTTO [*] I INTRODUCTION THE MISNOMER OF PRIVATIZATION The processes described under the misleading term "privatization" have been part of a major social restructuring in both the political and economic spheres....
Tags: accountability, Council, democracy, FINANCE, Globalization, Government, liberalization, network, regulation, Regulations, Skeptic, Strategy, World Bank
Research articles 2000-09-22
Green acres, indeed
When passed, the so-called "Freedom to Farm Act" of 1996 was heralded as the beginning of the end for the centralized, command-model agricultural system the United States inherited from the Great Depression. But as might have been expected, and as many skeptics correctly predicted, casting farm interests adrift on the...
Tags: FINANCE, payment, skeptic, U.S. Senate
Research articles 1999-05-17
White House warms to greenhouse gas theory
Shortly before the November election, Rep. George Brown of California, ranking minority member of the House Science Committee, released a remarkable 68-page report. Titled "Environmental Science Under Siege: Fringe Science and the 104th Congress," this attack on scientists skeptical of climate-change forecasts was termed a "rambling diatribe" by the Republican...
Tags: scientist, skeptic, theory, White House
Research articles 1997-01-27
Revenge of the nerds - skepticism of paranormal claims
MIDSUMMER. A thousand years ago our ancestors danced around bonfires and, doubtless, slaughtered a maiden or two. These days we like to think that we have moved on. True, the Scandinavians still throw a good midsommar, but, even there, virgins are no longer sacrificed, at least in the conventional sense...
Tags: alien, MARKETING, skeptic, TVs, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1996-07-29
NBC's cynically skewed reporting on the 'power of prayer.' (National Broadcasting Company Inc.'s special on the book 'Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine')
The National Broadcasting Co. Inc. NBC aired an hour-long television special about Larry Dossey and his book entitled 'Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine' on Mar. 30, 1994. The book deals mainly about Dossey's research which showed that cardiac care unit patients who are prayed...
Tags: broadcasting, Dr., Murphy, NBC Universal Inc., skeptic, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1994-06-22
The suppressor who couldn't be suppressed. (Dennis Wilfong of Innovative Technology Inc., manufacturer of surge suppressors)
Ruined on '60 Minutes' in 1978, Dennis Wilfong is proving the skeptics wrong. His goal is to be the IBM of surge suppressors. For Dennis Wilfong, there is life after being slammed on "60 Minutes." Twelve years ago, Wilfong was part-owner of a company that generated...
Tags: board, circuitry, electronics, Ford Motor Co., Robots, skeptic, Strategy
Research articles 1992-03-01
The billion-dollar plastic gun. (Red Eye Arms Inc.) (product announcement)
The Billion-Dollar Plastic Gun John Floren was in the market for office space last winter when a developer friend suggested he look at his new building in downtown Winter Park. Floren admired the gleaming, glass structure, but he was more interested in the...
Tags: Construction, Government, Manufacturing, Pentagon, skeptic, wall
Research articles 1988-02-01
The budget: courage helps a lot
WE HAVE BEEN critical of Senators Dole and Domenici in the past, but we have to admit they've done pretty well this time. D&D led Senate Republicans to a budget compromise with the White House that gives President Reagan most of the spending cuts he wants, doesn't raise taxes...
Tags: courage, FINANCE, Government, president, skeptic, Taxes, U.S. Senate
Research articles 1985-05-03
Senate Shift Brings CU Skeptic To Fore
The Republican takeover of the Senate next year will bring with it another credit union skeptic to head the all-important Senate Banking Committee. The Republican takeover of the Senate next year will bring with it another credit union skeptic to head the all-important Senate Banking Committee.
Tags: skeptic, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2002-11-18
Progress, thy name is Progressive.(Opinion)
Byline: Chris Thompson The pending merger of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and Cleveland Tomorrow creates a rare opportunity to leave behind past mistakes and create a new image and vision for the region. Byline: Chris Thompson ...
Tags: company, image, Progressive Corp., skeptic
Research articles 2003-12-15
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