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...That leaves a vast and vital batch of commercial stuff - which may be box-office hits in their home countries, though unknown elsewhere - for the connoisseurs of Midnight Madness. As Geddes says with justifiable pride, "It's everything that you don't expect to find at a film festival." His job is to honor the primary demand after-hours movie goers have for a film: that it keep them awake...
...contractors it uses, to keep tighter control of the production process, and it too has increased the number of spot checks. That's good news for the checkers. "Our phones are ringing off the hook," says DeRagon of the STR testing lab, which tracks toys from initial design to batch testing of wet paint to audits of contractors' factories...
...Last year the CSIRO structural biologist took a batch of crystals, the product of months of painstaking work, to a synchrotron in Japan, only to discover they'd been destroyed in transit. But such disappointments, as well as the increasing difficulty of taking biological samples across security-conscious international borders, are over for Australasian scientists now that they have a latest-generation synchrotron in their backyard. So are the frustrations of traveling to facilities in the U.S. or Europe for a few days of precious beam time, then flying home to wait months for another opportunity...
Part of preserving that culture is keeping the right ratio of experience to fresh talent. Dodge & Cox hires only one or two analysts a year. Starting in the 1980s, that became a problem as the firm began covering foreign companies. Dodge & Cox could have hired a big batch of analysts but decided not to, fearing it would wreck the apprenticeship model. "If you hire five people at the same time, they all start going to lunch together," says president Ken Olivier, a member of the U.S.-stocks committee. And as years passed, there might not have been enough promotions...
...rethink how smells and flavors are embedded in products. That investment is a sunk cost for fragrance companies; they get paid only when a manufacturer buys the finished product as an ingredient. So IFF makes money on volume. A sodamaker, for example, would buy vats of flavoring for every batch of a popular drink. But unlike other raw ingredients, like corn syrup or carbonated water, flavors are unique. When a flavor or fragrance hits big, IFF scores a guaranteed revenue stream...