Word: european
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fantasy. The nonwage costs of adding a worker, they claim, overwhelm any increase in production--one of the reasons unemployment is high in the first place. Their obligatory contributions for benefits add up to 45% of salary costs. They pay a higher minimum wage than the U.S. or most European countries. Laying workers off is legally complicated and prohibitively expensive. And, in Michelin's case, political dynamite. When the famed French tiremaker said last month that it was slashing 10% of its work force after posting a 17% rise in earnings, Jospin threatened to sanction Michelin and any profitable companies...
...denizens who work here include a European rock star and a co-founder of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, as well as a dozen or more Ph.D.s. Job descriptions are fluid: chief technical officer Ed Catmull, one of the true pioneers of computer graphics, now heads up the story-development department. "There aren't a lot of closed doors," says TS2 co-director Ash Brannon, 29. "I can't think of another place where people feel so free." Or so involved. Everybody at Pixar is a "filmmaker," including Greg Brandeau, who runs the 1,700 computer processors known collectively...
...would be nice to read of Lo's nasty times with Filthy, but per Pera, the pair never had sex, and he didn't force her to make stag films, as Humbert had said. The real problem, though, is in the narrative voice. In Lolita, Humbert, an educated European, could wax satyric in language as elaborate as any poet's or pedant's. Lo, 11 when the tale begins, and no scholar, must be limited in word power and storytelling skills. Yet the book's prose style, while undistinguished, is far too precocious and knowing for even the brightest...
Weigel went on to address some of the book's more significant points, including John Paul II's role in the collapse of European communism...
...Sean Huang '02 said his experience in studying history typically showed the European view of the colonization of a new land, ignoring the view of the people who already lived there...