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"I want to break the mold, I wanna break the stereotype," she sings in finale Fingerprints but - let's be honest - she does neither, no matter how radio-friendly and packed with chart punch her songs may be.
"Our customers and partners asked us to break the mold of "one-size-fits-all" reactive support to help them meet the needs of increasingly diverse, global and mission-critical IT operations," said Michael Collins, General Manager - Dell Middle East.
With a success rate like that, why would anyone even consider trying to break the mold set by a proven process?
The size change, combined with a redesign that emphasizes big graphics and color, is intended to differentiate the weekly from other Chicago media, says Marketing Director Tim Nedoba: "We're trying to break the mold of what it is to be a GLBT paper."
He kept us up-to-date with new editions of reference works, and gave us history regarding longtime standbys: 1963 saw Webster's Third New International Dictionary break the mold of prescriptivism and venture into descriptive territory (CW, May-June 1990).
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