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...leader of over 20,000 people, Smith is less of a micro-manager, and more of a communicator—working to present a coherent message for a disparate community...
...made plans to delve into functional genomics, even as some questioned the importance of the field.Though Tosteson implemented sweeping reforms, including interdepartmental initiatives that required a centralization of power, colleagues praised his willingness to support others’ projects without unduly interfering.“He was not a micro-manager,” said S. James Adelstein, executive dean for academic programs under Tosteson. “If [others] did a good job, he let them run with it and supported them as much as possible.”Tosteson was able to realize his expansive vision in part...
...attempts to woo industry through subsidies work so well. While Dresden has managed to reinvent itself as a micro-electronics "cluster," a similar attempt by the town of Frankfurt an der Oder failed. Around eastern Germany, there are numerous examples of industries without real prospects being kept alive artificially, complains Holznagel of the Taxpayers' Federation, citing tilemaking and leather-treatment plants on the Baltic coast. "The subsidies just prolong the death," he says, "but it comes anyway...
...humiliating blow for Intel, which has played a key role in developing chip technology for over four decades, and can now claim a staggering 80.5% market share in microprocessors. But it represents vindication for Intel's semiconductor rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which filed the original complaint in 2000. And it also underlines the power and authority of the Commission, which has now established itself as the world's most feared antitrust regulator...
...microns wide.” For Tischfield, ceramics have also facilitated forays into entrepreneurship and community service. Besides teaching volunteer workshops for SPARK, an after school program in Boston for inner-city youth, he works on “La Casas de Experanza,” a micro-enterprise project aimed at helping develop the slums of La Prusia, near Grenada, Nicaragua, by giving them the means to support themselves in an independent, sustainable way. “I’m researching environmentally conscious kiln options and developing a business model,” he says...