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...feel that what we have learned over time is a big asset for the company," says Markus Langes-Swarovski, 32, an executive-board member who oversees branding and communication and is a great-great-grandson of the company's founder, Daniel Swarovski. "Protecting your know-how is one element of showing appreciation for what you've achieved...
...Establishing authenticity is very important for all luxury companies," says Robert Buchbauer, 40, a great-great-grandson of the founder who directs the company's consumer-goods business. "The more interchangeable products become, the more important it is, but so far we're in the lucky position that our product is unique...
...help insulate the building while absorbing storm water, providing a natural habitat--and saving the company an estimated $35 million in construction costs and much more from lower energy use. Just as Henry Ford was the father of the Model T and modern mass production, his great-great-grandson says he wants to be a father of nothing less than a new industrial revolution...
...reflects the quick assumptions of the war on drugs. The farmland around leafland, a once commanding estate east of Lexington, used to provide a rich bounty to the Graves clan. Jacob Hughes, a Welshman, first planted in this part of Kentucky in the 1770s, but now his great-great-grandson, Jacob Hughes Graves III, 75, grows corn and tobacco only out of tradition. Although he earned his livelihood as a banker, Graves grew up working on the farm, and he always hoped his land might provide at least one of his nine children with an agricultural career...
...black American, I know what it's like to have your history stolen from you," said Gates, the great-great-grandson of slaves and Du Bois Professor of the Humanities...