Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judy B. Andler, one of EFZ's three part-timepaid staff members, said the Cambridge-widemovement for immigrant voting rights began in1992, when Komite Kreyol, a group of Haitianimmigrants, asked EFZ to pursue the issue. Thegroup did so for a while, Andler said, but soonhad to direct all its resources toward thecampaign to keep rent control...
...discussed this with Dean [of the College Harry R.] Lewis ['68]," he says. "We want to bring the students into direct contact with the administration...
...question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
Good luck. The smart guys in Silicon Valley, whose condescension toward AOL has risen in direct proportion to its embrace by the public, have never considered the company a serious technology player. "America Online has built an exceptional franchise on a technology base that could charitably be called dated," says Roger McNamee, founder of the high-tech investment firm Integral Partners. "It has been difficult for its partners to work with, and for AOL itself to maintain." How can the company possibly hope to compete in the corporate networking market if its own network is held together with Scotch tape...
Levitt liked to compare himself to General Motors. "We channel labor and materials to a stationary outdoor assembly line instead of bringing them together inside a factory." To keep down lumber costs, the Levitts bought their own forests and built a sawmill in Oregon. They purchased appliances direct from the manufacturer, cutting out the distributor's markup. They even made their own nails. Levitt's methods kept costs so low that in the first years the houses, which typically sat on a seventh-of-an-acre lot, could sell for just $7,990, a price that still allowed the Levitts...