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Coordinating some 200 task forces and 600 project teams, Vasella set about knocking heads together. By the time he was done, 12,500 people had been laid off; an $80 million venture fund helped ex-employees with good ideas start businesses. He got the unions to accept performance-based compensation, a concept new to Swiss industry at the time. "Ex-Sandoz people say there is more freedom," says Novartis' elected employee representative Kathrin Amacker. "Ex-Ciba people say there is more drive and deadline consciousness...
...public for not choosing death over the dishonor of capture by the enemy. With nationalist fervor at a peak, some right-wing pundits accused them of being Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) moles. One was of Kurdish origin, others pointed out. Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said he could not "accept the fact that they went with the terrorists that night. Our soldier is prepared to die if necessary when he is protecting the country...
...something that post-1987 Prince, Robert Pollard, or Lil’ Wayne does. These artists are incapable of editing themselves, of any kind of self-restraint; it’s just a condition of their artistic temperament, and it’s something we, as listeners, have to accept. “Rock N Roll” ultimately benefits from that quick-sketch approach and ends up being above par for Adams’ discography. It’s an incredible synthesis of nearly everything rock has produced (both good and bad) in the last 30 years. Adams tries...
...Even Republican candidates sound like they accept the reality of climate change, and the major Democratic candidates have all released surprisingly aggressive plans on energy and carbon, including front-runner Hillary Clinton, who called on Nov. 5 for a cap-and-trade system that would cut carbon emissions to 80% of 1990 levels by 2050. She's in line with the rest of the Democrats, and it's fairly remarkable that a position that would have been considered extreme eight years ago - when a certain Nobel laureate was running for President - is now orthodox in the Democratic party. And even...
...discovered resolve vis-à-vis Musharraf, with whom she had hoped to reach a power-sharing deal, declared his announcement insufficient, and demanded that he remove his uniform immediately. She said Musharraf should release the original judges and let "the real Supreme Court" decide on his legitimacy. "We will accept the decision of that Supreme Court, which will be constitutional and includes those judges who are detained," she said. Up until now, Bhutto has avoided all references to Pakistan's judiciary, focusing instead on elections and a call for civilian rule...