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...trash-talking underdog. He dismisses Lipton (made by Pepsi and Unilever) and Nestea (a Coke-Nestlé partnership) as "garbage." His advice to Coke: "Fire those people [the marketing executives]. Put them on a truck, and run them south. They're out there covering their asses." Vultaggio gloats about the fate of Snapple, once a proud independent like Arizona, that was swallowed and spit out by Quaker Oats and is now part of Cadbury-Schweppes. To its owners, he says, Snapple is "not even worth talking about." The soft-drink superpowers feel similarly about him. They refused to bash back...
...resignation. But some professors at the University’s professional schools had complained that the Corporation—the only body with the authority to fire and hire a president—failed to reach out to the broader Harvard community in considering Summers’ fate...
...companies had little to fear. Neither Reagan nor subsequent Presidents or Congresses were eager to enforce the law. The fate of just one provision in the 1986 act is revealing. As part of the enforcement effort, the law called for a pilot program to establish a telephone-verification system that employers could use when hiring workers. It would allow employers to tap into a national data bank to determine the legal status of a job applicant. Only those who had legitimate documentation would be approved. With such a system, employers could no longer use the excuse that they...
...ironically, the outcome in this high-drama showdown - and perhaps the survival of the de Villepin government - will be decided neither in the streets, nor in the corridors of power. Instead, the disputed law's fate will soon be determined when an independent commission issues its ruling on whether the law is even constitutional. The 12 justices on France's Constitutional Council are set to deliver their judgment late this week on the legality of de Villepin's controversial law-which seeks to reduce chronic youth unemployment levels of over 20% by allowing businesses to fire workers aged...
Modern agriculture leaves him deeply troubled. He marvels at how massive surpluses of corn, made possible by the use of noxious chemical fertilizers and pesticides, have led to the rise of huge feedlots where cattle are pumped full of antibiotics and corn-based feed to hasten them to their fate as cheeseburgers. Organic farming? It has its virtues, but he discovers that our visions of contented cows and free-range chickens don't always match the realities. In a final lunge toward authenticity, he forages for mushrooms in a burned-over pine forest and shoots a wild pig, a primal...