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...year-old labor force while leaving out his subsequent pledge to make a transition to 16-year-olds (a difficult task, says Nike, given the workers' propensity for using "forged documents"). Second, Knight referred to his employees as "poor little Indonesian workers," a characterization that failed to convey the respect in which he held them. In both instances, Weinstein insisted, Phil had "misspoken." What would it take to make these two classic moments go away...
...baby boomer nostalgia does not fuel Fleetwood Mac's comeback alone. In two decades, the pop music scene has not seen an artist who can convey vulnerability and angst quite like Fleetwood Mac's lead vocalist, Stevie Nicks...
This, however, can pose a problem for a tribute album. Artists are confronted with a dilemma. Should they try to capitalize on these traits and convey the natural sensitivity and candor that characterizes Fleetwood Mac? Or should they try to do something completely different and revamp the material in their own style...
...anymore and therefore couldn't read our diplomas, I have two responses: first, the Latin on a diploma is not complex and we know what it should be saying-we just need to make sure our names are spelled correctly. Second, by not using our everyday English speech to convey an extraordinary achievement, we raise the significance of the certificate...
...Although the feeling inside the White House is that he has been the victim of a protracted personal assault funded by right-wing money, Clinton is wary about speaking out publicly, because he and his advisers feel that his success in the polls has come from his ability to convey to the American people that he is more concerned about their problems than his own. Shuffling the CDs on his desk and drinking coffee, he spent more than an hour with managing editor Walter Isaacson discussing the Jones case, his Africa trip and his future agenda...