Word: ig
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...Read "Five Questions for the CIA IG's Interrogation Report...
...threatened with closure under GM's new restructuring plan. In the negotiations with Magna, the unions had won promises from the company that all four Opel factories in Germany would remain open, despite the fact that it planned to cut about 4,500 jobs in the country. The powerful IG Metall union, which represents about 3 million autoworkers and electrical and engineering employees, says it won't back down from that demand. But now that the Magna deal is dead, the unions don't have much leverage. They are worried that Germany could suffer more job losses than other European...
Winners of Ig Nobel prizes are allowed a one-minute acceptance speech. Every year, if and when they go over the limit, Miss Sweetie Poo walks up to them and whines, "Please stop. I’m bored." According to Isabel’s mother, Rachel Kadel-Garcia ’98, "it takes a few repetitions before she is successfully dismissed." Two to three girls from the Boston area audition each year for the coveted role...
...commercial, "I was told to do this, and do that, and do this, and I got a bit cranky," she admits. She was allowed more freedom at the Ig Nobel ceremony. "I really did like it when Marc said, ‘Isabel, you’ve done enough now,’ even though he knew that I wasn’t going to stop," she says...
...first annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded for discoveries “that cannot, or should not, be reproduced.” 19 years later, the Igs, as they’re lovingly referred to, are still being awarded for improbable (and bizarre) research findings. FM attended last week’s awards in Sanders Theatre. The scene was chaotic, uncomfortable, but nonetheless amusing as answers to questions we never knew we had were answered and old wives’ tales debunked (don’t worry, you can keep cracking your knuckles; if laureate Donald L. Unger didn?...