Even before people in the West knew such a thing as group-buying, Chinese consumers had showed up at some car dealers in groups to demand deep discounts.
Word is out now that Apple has joined BAPco, an industry group that does one thing and one thing only: create benchmarks for testing the performance of Windows-based PCs.
The only thing my group of 8 or so fellow tasters could agree on was that we all disliked the Gramercy Tavern Home Brew, which had the smell of overripe strawberries, making it hard to enjoy its less offensive, starfruit-y taste.
Their CD is being released today in the U.S., and many critics are hailing the group as the next big thing.
"If we beat Chile we're practically group winners, the good thing is that we now depend on ourselves, " said the striker.
At 6:30 a.m. the following morning, I'm met more with confusion than humor when I ask the same thing of a group of day laborers in the rundown neighborhood of Bataween.
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This LoveLife thing looked like a group they wanted to be part of!
It was awesome to see this deep mutual respect grow as each group watched the other do their thing.
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The scrap-heap system introduces distortion that the group initially felt was a bad thing, but now it's become their trademark.
It is one thing for a rogue group of coaches to run out of control, it is another for the governing body to sweep it under the rug.
Jenny Uglow has done that difficult thing of writing a group biography that gives equal attention to all the main players, yet still manages to be something more than a patchwork.
In contrasting these sites with Groupon, we can learn a thing or two from the group buying heavy-weight.
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They'd just come off a successful European tour, and many were touting the group as Seattle's next big thing.
"They just got here day before yesterday and it's just the most fun thing to see the whole group getting back together again, " Wimer says.
He considered role-playing a social thing, a form of group storytelling.
"When we followed up, and we asked them about that, half of that group said that was actually a good thing, " said Mollyann Brodie of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
But the wage gap between China and other developing countries will shrink, said Mr. Fung, echoing views shared by Boston Consulting Group, because "China was the thing that kept the price low, " he says.
Mr. COYNE: I beg the audience to just play along and as a group, we can all do this thing that really makes for a marvelous moment and we hope at a Flaming Lips show that we've just said, whatever you do in this room, you can do it here.
And there were various times when I saw an interpersonal version of the same thing happen for someone in the group.
The thing is, being in this group is so worth the effort.
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If you were in a charity golf outing and your foursome brought in a scratch score and a group of obvious hackers won anyway the first thing you would do is ask for the scorecards.
And, intriguingly, the only thing that triggered limbic activity in either group was reading the happy story.
"We're trying to earn respect back for our group and that to me is the most important thing, " said Carlyle.
So what I said to them is the same thing that I say to the entire group: We genuinely believe that small business is the backbone of America.
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Building up a little equity is a good idea, a democracy of property owners is a different thing from a country with a small group of rentiers and a mass of renters.
"If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible, " said Jimmy Ray, director of Harris County's Justice Information Management System (JIMS).
Well according to the pressure group, Safe Speed, it would prove no such thing.
She recalls making points in boardrooms, then watching the group take note of a male later saying the same thing.
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