If the old Animal Planet was defined by a voice of God narrator — Ms. Kaplan mimicked it in a recent interview, putting on a serious face and intoning "the lion is walking through the bush" — the new Animal Planet will emphasize predation programming (a friendlier term for animal death action), pet shows and immersive storytelling.
"Sex workers" is "not a family friendly term," Barbara Haux, a CBS Outdoor senior account executive, wrote in a rejection e-mail to the clinic.
Moreover, the noun pathway suggests a more "friendly" term than conveyer belt with all that this implies about an impersonal or industrial model of care.
Well, the exponential acceleration of our information technology and of our processing mechanisms certainly raises the notion of the soon to be born enhanced intelligence -- which in my perspective is a much more friendly term and one inviting a hopeful future for our next generations.
When that happens, consumers will realize they don't need so many me-too products around them, and as the interest rates begin to rise again and VC vintages are over, we may see valuations turn the current game much more "interesting" — or perhaps even a much less friendly term.
Mary's sometime lover, Wayne Nathan Hintonn), a preacher on friendly terms with a variety of sins, and his upright wife, Rhonda (Donna Duplantier), round out the company.
Martin Marietta responded in a statement that it still wanted to strike a deal on friendly terms.
Well, an F.B.I. agent on friendly terms with a Florida socialite (enough to send her shirtless photos of himself) can, on the basis of a half-dozen mildly harassing e-mails she had received, set in motion an invasive inquiry that ends up leaving the C.I.A. without a permanent director and putting the appointment of the next Supreme Allied Commander in Europe on hold.
First, one of the funds, Jana Partners, had quietly approached the company earlier in the year and talked to Mr. Ashe about becoming a friendly, long-term shareholder.
Wells's great fantasies charged the batteries of mystically inclined intellectuals like Madame Blavatsky, G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky and especially Gorky, a celebrated writer on friendly terms with Chekhov, Tolstoy and Lenin.
