Word: latinization
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...mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build a broadband wireless business for the last 10 years, and when wi-fi came around four years ago," says Polk--whose varied experience includes running the Latin American unit of Global Wireless holdings, a company backed by investor George Soros--"[wi-fi] looked like it would...
...didn't set out to be the CEO of Nestle when he began selling ice cream in his native Austria 35 years ago. He says he didn't even know that the company he worked for, Findus, was owned by Nestle at the time. "His ambition was to experience Latin America, to have an adventure there," says Gottfried Truppe, his college roommate. Why the fascination with Latin America? "The wide-open spaces and high mountains," Brabeck says. It was also far from home--and far from the mountaineering tragedy he had just lived through...
Something similar happened five years later. Brabeck returned to Switzerland as deputy head of the Latin American division, expecting to settle down in Vevey for three to five years. But within weeks, there was a management crisis in Ecuador, and he was parachuted in to become the new general manager. This time his Chilean-born wife refused to go with him. She stayed in Switzerland with the children, and she and Brabeck divorced. But there too Brabeck showed his famous persistence. Ten years later, on his 50th birthday, the couple remarried...
...billion business, says Patrice Bula, head of the chocolate division at Nestle headquarters, and the company is pushing Kit Kat as its answer to the Mars bar, the world's most popular candy. Last year Nestle started producing Kit Kats in Russia and Bulgaria for Eastern Europe. A Latin American launch is slated this year. Kit Kat is already selling briskly in Japan, Australia and India, and a relaunch is under way in Thailand...
...long time,” he said. While Harris stressed that the urgency of communicating with advisers and students regarding the transition would take precedence, he replied that the committee would do its best to move forward on issues of implementation. Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Mexican and Latin American politics and economics, asked if “good departmental courses” would need to meet the multidisciplinary threshold in order to fulfill Gen Ed credit. Harris responded that while multidisciplinary content will be one criterion, the committee expects “many or most?...