As one of the arch headlines that are their stock-in-trade might suggest, "Stuck to the Bottom in a Rising Tide?" During the bubble years, a windfall of an additional 35,000 advertising pages flowed into existing business publications, along with a bunch of newly thrown-together magazines, some cynically conceived just to get a place at the trough.
In our lesser mythological yet giddy 21st-century-world of high-speed Internet connections and ever expanding social media platforms, legends, as traditionally conceived, tend to get debunked.
I just couldn't conceive their ability to get 250 million tons of coal to market, which is what they needed to do.
But while that may take away what seems like an obvious target customer, it's opened the door to a new kind of customer, and a new way of conceiving of how to get workforces communicating better with each other — and specifically how to help managers get a better sense of what their reports are doing, and for employees to feel like they are being heard.
"Bob conceived it his duty to get wildly drunk and do mad things.
He plays Packer, a twentysomething multi-billionaire Wall Street trader, who we see riding across Manhattan in his stretch limo, having conceived a whimsical desire to get a haircut way over the other side of town.
The Pi was conceived as a tool to get kids learning to code — but has also proved popular with big kids who like to tinker.
The microcomputer was conceived as a tool to get kids learning to code – but has also proved popular with the maker community to power all manner of DIY gizmos and gadgets.
Riding the crest of smartphone innovation, and conceived as a way to get gamers off their couches, a new startup is opening its private beta today called Explorence, which is developing outdoor mobile games for Android — and soon for iOS.
Mencius' conversation with King Xuan can be conceived as an attempt to get the king to nourish his moral sprouts by reflecting on them, to become aware of what his moral emotions are (such as compassion) and to take action to grow them.
