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...solution, it was perfect: the Golden Arches pays all the pickle farmers they employ to stop producing sour cucumbers and begin producing staples like potatoes, grain and the like. What you've got here is the beginning of an international food distribution service. Since everyone throws out the pickles anyway, we eliminate waste and the needless production of a needless product...
Advertisers soon began to employ her face and name to endorse products like coffee, phonograph records and wine. Such favored treatment did not always sit well with her colleagues and competitors, especially when she ordered them about. While covering World War II, she had the habit of showing up on the arm of the C.O. at the local theater of operations. One LIFE photographer, queried by the home office as to why Bourke-White was ahead of him on a story both had been assigned, replied that she "had one piece of equipment he didn't have...
...Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, (which President Bok had created to advise the Harvard Corporation), recommended to that body that Harvard totally divest. Their argument, which SASC shares, Lichtman may find in The Harvard Crimson of May 11, 1984. The committee comments: "It should be noted that while U.S. firms employ less that I percent of the Black work force in South Africa and accounts for only 17 percent of foreign investments there, they dominate several strategic sectors: energy, computers, motor vehicles and mining. In a critical way, then, some of the U.S. firms in which Harvard is invested contribute directly...
...market. One of the results has been wild fluctuations, including the rapid rise and fall of the dollar over the past two years and the current dramatic appreciation of the yen, which has some Japanese exporters crying for help. Rather than bring back fixed rates, Baker's plan would employ a system dubbed the "managed float." Under the accord, the seven nations will try to control rates by coordinating action on the underlying fundamentals, such as budget deficits, trade balances, interest rates, inflation and unemployment. If necessary, there might be interventions in the currency markets by various government banks...
...power (vs. 850 MW for a typical U.S. nuclear generator), the Chernobyl unit had some design features dating back to the atomic pile that Enrico Fermi used in 1942 to create the world's first chain reaction at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. Both systems employed graphite to moderate the nuclear reaction. Most U.S. units regulate with water instead. About half of all Soviet reactors employ graphite rather than water...