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Ever since the 1980s, when a wave of foreclosures inspired those iconic Farm Aid concerts, the media's sporadic reports from farm country have tended to focus on floods, droughts and other disasters. But the farm crisis is as over as Barbara Mandrell. Farm incomes are at an all-time high. The median farmer enjoys five times the net worth of the median nonfarmer household. Crop prices have soared--thanks largely to the Federal Government's promotion of corn ethanol over more efficient renewable energies--and yet subsidies have as well...
...food/dog-sweater example frames Wal-Mart's tactical quandary. The company's cultlike focus on supply-chain logistics grinds away at costs but doesn't allow it to know the neighbors. The new strategy tries to make that connection--editing for the area, offering a point of distinction. "It's going to tell the customer that we understand what they need," says Castro-Wright. "We not only understand what you need, we respect your point of view. We want to be your store of choice because we understand you better than anyone else in the marketplace...
...Romney says now. So the former management consultant did what he might have recommended to any CEO: he got a new team, showing Preston the door and giving the job to his policy director, former investment banker Tim Murphy. "The thing about Mitt," says Murphy, "is he wants to focus on the analysis...
...progress into the digital world. The first is manned by the Library Digital Initiative (LDI), and the second by the Google Library Project.The Library Digital Initiative is a five-year effort funded internally by Harvard University. It was proposed in 1997 and since its inception, its focus has been to build tools necessary for further digitization. The LDI has divided its funding among a number of projects spanning Harvard’s incredibly large, decentralized library system. The money distributed by the LDI goes to funding both acquisitions and digitization of current holdings, which is an intricate and costly process.The...
...tutors, and some students. Now that undergraduates don’t have to settle on a concentration until their third semester, the program targets sophomores just getting acquainted with the rhythms of upperclass life. Resident tutors are now expected to help sophomores pick an academic field to make the focus of their years at Harvard. “I’ve seen a lot of programs and initiatives and things come and go during my time at Harvard, and this one to me seems singularly well conceived and thought-out,” Cabot House sophomore advising coordinator Myles...