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  1. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    ...It was only ninety-four pages long, and so obviously wretchedly written it was destined to become a huge fad
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  2. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    Eureka!"s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer to the problem of testing metals' density are few and far between, and mostly it's just trying and failing and trying something else, feeding in data and eliminating variables and staring at the results, trying to figure out where you went wrong.
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  3. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    Since I spend my working days studying trends, many of which are downright disgusting, I feel it's my duty after work to encourage the trends I'd like to see catch on, like signaling before you change lanes, and chocolate cheesecake. And reading. Also,
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  4. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps changing: Huguenots, Koreans, homosexuals, Muslims, Tutsis, Jews, Quakers, wolves, Serbs, Salem housewives. Nearly every group, so long as it's small and different, has had a turn, and the pattern never changes-disapproval, isolation, demonization, persecution. Which was one of the reasons it'd be nice to find the switch that turned fads on. I'd like to turn that one off for good.
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  5. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    1. Optimize potential.2. Facilitate empowerment.3. Implement visioning.4. Strategize priorities.5. Augment core structures.
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  6. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC.
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  7. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.
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  8. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like "How did the murderer get into the locked room?" instead of hard ones like "What causes trends?" and "What did I do to deserve Flip?" and then went over to the eight hundreds.
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  9. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.
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  10. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop and just as matted with dirt."
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  11. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?
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  12. Connie Willis _ Bellwether

    It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
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