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...Wang, accompanied by the rest of the consultants assigned to her project, meets me in the lobby at 7:44. We head over to the client's headquarters, about 15 minutes away from the hotel. Seven minutes later, Conrad (the marketing guy) pulls the rental car into the parking lot. The sprawling building before us looks too industrial to be the central office for a major manufacturing company. There is no "campus" a la Microsoft or Nike, no sculptured lawns or basketball courts. We enter the building and make our way through a sea of cubicles (c. 1970). The atmosphere...
...Conrad announces, to the team's surprise, that it is his 31st birthday today. To celebrate, he and Wang hold a meeting to discuss the results of survey research his sub-team has been conducting. Conrad is anxious about making his volumes of data relevant for the old-school client. Wang has been brought in to support Conrad's efforts by applying the fancy Excel tricks she has recently learned. Conrad is visibly relieved to have someone to bounce ideas off of and he insists that I call Wang "Powerhouse," a nickname she has earned for her ability to absorb...
...would pay, analysts figure, if a generic version of the drug were available? If the patent expires on time, according to a University of Minnesota study funded in part by the generic-drug industry, consumers could save $7.33 billion over five years. Those arguments helped persuade Montana G.O.P. Senator Conrad Burns, who faces a tough re-election fight next year, to drop his support for the bill this fall, saying he wanted no part in forcing millions of Americans to pay higher prices...
Yale is located in beautiful New Haven, Connecticut, ranked number one by Money Magazine as the most dangerous place in America to bring actual currency. The atmosphere in New Haven--which Joseph Conrad attempted to capture in his famous work Heart of Darkness--is fertile ground for the development of young intellects. Jedidiah S. Purdy '97 attended Harvard, but not until arriving at Yale Law School did he recognize that Seinfeld was a show built around an ironic sensibility. Purdy wrote a book about this observation, which made quite a stir at Yale where most people have had their televisions...
...Parker R. Conrad...