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...wanted to go into business to help an unusual constituency: his vendors. He proposed to import coffee by paying impoverished Latin American farmers double the going rate for their beans. Reaction from potential investors was predictably cool. "People were just, like, 'That's a bad idea,'" he recalls. "The concept of having your values embedded in everything you did in your business ... was just not happening in any major way at all." Nonetheless, with just $100,000 from family, friends and a few supportive idealists, Equal Exchange was born in 1986 in a 2,000-sq.-ft. room in Boston...
Nowhere is the team concept more ingrained or successful than at American Funds, whose managers avoid the spotlight like a stock headed for bankruptcy. The company's guiding theme: many heads with varying strategies, each doing his best with his slice of the fund, produce more good ideas and protect the fund from fads. "We've been doing it this way since 1958," says Drew Taylor, vice president of client services...
...Rove's long-held dream that his will be the transformational presidency that lays the groundwork for a Republican majority that can endure, as Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition did, for a half-century or more. Once he gets past the midterm elections, Bush plans to introduce a concept that, if anything, is even more ambitious than his failed Social Security plan: a grand overhaul that would include not only that program but Medicare and Medicaid as well. Says strategist McKinnon: "He knows that part of what he brings to the presidency is an ability and commitment to chart...
...appear to have metastasized. Under the new British proposal, the 10 new member states would get a total of €14 billion less than they would under a plan put forward by Luxembourg in June. Alberto Navarro, Spanish Minister for European Affairs, saw it as evidence of "a new concept of solidarity ? by which the poor give to the rich, especially to the U.K." What particularly rankled the French was that under the proposal Britain would continue to get most of its rebate. Yet the opposition in Britain accused Blair of betraying his own country by trading away as much...
...This is where we [the writers] seem schizophrenic, because we either see images or hear characters.” Vogel’s unique inspirations set her apart from more traditional playwrights. Most recently, Vogel visualized anthropomorphic puppets and decided to center an entire play on this concept, “The Long Christmas Ride Home.” “I saw the puppet body literally come to life,” Vogel said. To write the play, Vogel immersed herself in an unlikely combination of Christmas music and the ancient Japanese puppet theater, Bunraku...