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This is a perversion of the ideal of a representative workforce. Below the glass ceiling, representation is sought only as a peripheral buffer around a corporation, for a world that demands it. Above it, in the senior management core, representation is sought only so long as it conforms to the wishes of the established. Instead of opening up senior management opportunity to a diverse candidacy pool, the executives who testified at the Commission partition minorities in work pools which serve very specific purposes of appearance...
Thiessen said he believes the gel will buffer the crystals as they grow. But the concentration of the gel solution must be low enough so it does not slow the growth of the crystals...
...reform law as lobbyists watched the proceedings with cellular phones at the ready. "They started dialing the instant anyone in that room even thought about changing a tax break." Their calls alerted interested parties and brought a deluge of protest borne by phone, letter or fax. "There is no buffer allowing Representatives to think about what's going on," Thurber says. "In the old days you had a few months or weeks, at least a few days. Now you may have a few seconds before the wave hits...
...society, they might be found by first dispelling all residues of election-year rhetoric and acknowledging that Washington, far from being out of touch, is too plugged in, and that if history is any guide, the problem will only grow as technology advances. The challenge, thus conceived, is to buffer the legislature from the pressure of feedback...
Setting up what an observer called a game of "high-stakes poker," Croatian President Franjo Tudjman decided not to extend the United Nations peacekeeping mandate in Croatia, which expires March 31. Diplomats fear that removing the buffer of 15,000 Blue Helmets could allow animosities between Croats and the Croatian Serbs or between Croatia and Serbian-ruled Yugoslavia to flare into renewed fighting...