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...Andrews, on the other hand, is concerned more with the good of the unit than the idea of all kinds of people working together. "The military is based on teamwork and unity, and a team only works best together with absolute trust," Andrews says. Looking at society, Andrews sees friction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, and he doesn't want that interfering with the efficiency of ROTC. In general society, there is friction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, so the military is really no different. It took time for men to be able to work side by side with women...
...high because they get to choose the lowest one being offered by any seller in the world. Location becomes unimportant. You're not penalized for being a seller stuck in low-traffic, low-price Bismarck or a buyer shopping in high-cost Manhattan. Auctions also minimize transaction costs ("friction" in e-commerce-speak) and eliminate the need to operate bricks-and-mortar stores. Online auctions "wring out the inefficiencies in the supply-chain process," says FairMarket CEO Scott Randall. They also benefit from Metcalfe's Law (named after Robert Metcalfe, the founder of 3Com Corp.): the value of a network...
...real undoing may have been the ill-fated alliance he made last fall with Jeffrey Sachs, a principal of the Chase Capital Entertainment Partners investment fund. Cassandra-Chase looked perfect on paper: Chase brought the structure to do private equity investment, and Giacchetto brought his high-wattage clients. But friction developed fast. Among the sore points, Cassandra-Chase's investment in Digital Entertainment Network, an Internet start-up whose chairman resigned after the out-of-court settlement of a suit that alleged he had molested a 13-year...
Hashimoto addressed U.S.-Japanese relations, saying he hoped "small sources of friction" wouldn't disrupt the common ground already established between the two nations...
Rudenstine also spoke about the sale of the Riverway at Mission Park low-income housing complex in Roxbury to its tenants' association. The complex was built after a Harvard land purchase in the 1960s created community friction...