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...professors with multiple appointments, assistants often function as chiefs of staff...
...According to Kevin L. Hartnett '03, the Store 23 philosophy extends beyond the store itself: "It's in the essence of its very products. Anything you buy from Store 23 will only function for 23 hours a day at best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same...
Ping is a purchasing analyst in the Non-Traditional Purchasing Department of a Fortune 500 food and beverage company. She graduated from college last June with a degree in industrial engineering, and started work in November. The function of her department, she told me, is to "purchase anything that's not related to the end product." This might mean nuts and bolts for machinery, hairnets and uniforms for employees or adhesives and cardboard for packaging. The list runs into the tens of thousands: everything necessary to move from idea to product except for the product itself...
...Free market conservatives on Capitol Hill, for example, believe the IMF has come to function as a safety net for bad investment decisions, and that investors and governments will continue acting recklessly as long as they can depend on a bailout...
...Clinton administration accepts the basic premise and function of the IMF, but believes the institution is too bureaucratic, inefficient and insensitive to the specifics of crisis situations that erupt periodically. They want the institution reformed to make it more transparent and more responsive to the fast-changing needs of the global financial system, and more sensitive to the humanitarian dimension of currency collapse in developing countries...