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Canadians have placed limits on American publications in Canada. Many Americans, too, complain about the media's tendency to pitch programs toward the lowest common denominator. And yet the common denominator need not be a low one, and the American knack for making entertainment that appeals to virtually all of humanity is no small gift. In his book The Hollywood Eye, writer and producer Jon Boorstin defends the movies' orientation to mass-market tastes in terms that can be applied to other branches

power—to highlight their goal of organizing “a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.” In December, an article in PC Magazine praised the new search engine with the quirky name, saying it “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results.”19 Thanks to that knack, Google was soon processing most of the millions—and then billions —of Internet searches being conducted every day. The company became fabulously successful, at least as measured by the traffic running through its site

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ambitionne de réinventer le message de la social-démocratie. « L’Europe affirme qu’elle est un bouclier contre la mondialisation, mais, en définitive, elle en est une courroie de transmission », expliquait récemment M. Cuperus dans le magazine belge Knack. D’où sa critique du fait que, pour la socialdémocratie européenne, l’adhésion à l’Europe soit devenue « une idéologie de substitution ». « Le tout-àl’Europe serait une bonne chose, mais en pratique, les sociauxdémocrates soutiennent ainsi un projet

how the Enga and Huli of New Guinea, who live in an awesome dread of female pollution, can reproduce themselves at all. Strange as it may seem to middleclass fugitives from the guilt of overt malperformance and disciples of "fair play," it is the knack of compelling a moral and righteous "humanity," an "honor" or "piety," by any means, fair or foul. (It may be more familiar to politicians and others who condone corruption and all sorts of abuses for the sake "of the greater good" or "of national

printer, and next to them, piled high on the floor, were the goody bags we’d put together for the night, including a voucher for copies of our other upcoming books, some hilarious Holy Moly! Rules beer mats, a branded mug, various other freebie knick-knacks and the bag itself – a really nice canvas thing printed with our new logo. To anyone walking into that room . . . . . . seeing the CEO of Macmillan deep in conversation with both the former CEO of Orion and the former head of Simon & Schuster; and

patch over your eye, and Henry wouldn't say a word. He would stare at you for a while, absorb the details of your injury, and then, without asking how you'd hurt yourself or whether you were in pain, calmly put his report on your desk. Still, he had a knack for wriggling into holes and scaring up missing people, and now that he was retired, I wondered if he wouldn't be willing to take on the job for me. Fortunately, he hadn't moved from his old apartment in Queens, which he shared with his widowed sister

différents niveaux, hiérarchiquement ordonnés : « orientation générale » définissant les lignes générales de l'action, « méthode générale » déterminant les séquences particulières à accomplir pour réaliser l'action projetée et « techniques spécifiques » (knacks et dexterities) utilisées au cours des différentes phases de l'action. À suivre ce modèle on décompose la performance sociale en éléments qui ont des fonctions différentes et peuvent être combinés de manière très flexible pour permettre l'adaptation

interchangeable parts combined with an assembly line to maximize production and minimize cost. Henry Ford is also an example of the American Dream and spirit. Ford’s education was limited but that did not stop him from becoming a super hero. Through a knack for creativity and hard work, Ford built up an empire around him. However, Ford was not an angel. Many people are willing to look past his negative aspects in light of what he accomplished. But that does not change the fact that such aspects are present