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Students recognize that the profession may have a bad image, but they say lawyers are usually respected, can exert power and often get rich...
...wins the races to perfect and sell green technologies will depend to a great extent on who has the edge in engineering and marketing skills. But equally important may be the encouragement companies get from their countries' political leaders. Governments can exert enormous influence over how aggressively businesses take the environment into account, using sticks and carrots -- sticks in the form of tough standards for products and manufacturing processes, carrots consisting of tax breaks and other incentives that reward innovation...
...GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes to bring under GATT for the first time, raise the bills of every American family almost $500 a year, according to a 1987 study. But the beneficiaries of such protection -- politically well organized textile manufacturers and unions -- can exert political leverage, while those who pay for it are widely dispersed...
...immigration, says Kalantzis, is one of two events of global importance to have taken place in modern Australian history. The other, she maintains, is the near destruction of Aboriginal society that followed the arrival of Europeans in 1788. Yet Aborigines have not only survived -- precariously -- but have begun to exert an influence on the public mind far beyond their numbers (250,000 out of a 17.5 million population). Examples of a burgeoning Aboriginal presence in Australian literature and music include Sally Morgan's 1987 autobiography, My Place, which chronicled a woman's discovery of her black identity; the 1990 musical...
...Aeneas team's management style is'responsible but hands off," Brokaw said. "They donot exert significant day to day control in anyway," he added...