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Dates: during 2000-2009
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HUGH: You were determined to get what you wanted, and I think good directors do that. Cameron Crowe was telling me when he was directing Jerry Maguire that there was a line Renee [Zellweger] says, and he had Jim Brooks, who was producing, in the trailer watching a monitor, talking to him on a walkie-talkie between takes saying "It's such an important line--don't compromise!" And they went to Take 450 on this line just because it was so important. You had that steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Pouring On the Charm | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...recognized expert in quality control - to the U.S. After service technicians found a potentially faulty wiring harness in the Touareg, VW sent technicians to the homes of Touareg owners to reassure them of the vehicle's quality. The company now has a dozen engineers in the U.S. solely to monitor the Touareg, and has appointed a board member to oversee quality issues. None of that will fix a basic Touareg glitch: its name. After dealers heard it in 2002, some begged VW to change it, fearing U.S. customers wouldn't have a clue how to pronounce it. VW has tacitly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revving Up Volkswagen | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

Founded and governed by school administrators, labor experts and students, the WRC was created in response to public concern with sweatshop conditions and schools’ increasing complicity in them. The WRC monitors factories that produce clothing licensed by (bearing the logos of) its member schools. If factory conditions are in violation of those schools’ codes of conduct for apparel production, the WRC releases information about the violation publicly and seeks to mediate the dispute with the factory management and the licensed brand. The WRC has investigated every worker complaint it has received (it receives complaints from...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky and Emma S. Mackinnon, S | Title: Trick or Treat Workers Right | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...brief look at the composition of their advisory boards speaks to the difference between these groups: representatives of the very clothing companies the FLA supposedly monitors make up one third of its own executive committee; the WRC governing board, in contrast, is made up of labor experts, students and administrators. As a result, the WRC investigations are conducted and decisions about follow-up mediation are made independently of the brands involved. The FLA relies on the same corporations it’s supposed to monitor for much of its funding—seven out of the 11 monitors...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky and Emma S. Mackinnon, S | Title: Trick or Treat Workers Right | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...security and blame the government." He has made little secret, though, of his disdain for Funcinpec. Two days before the slaying of journalist Chou, Hun Sen singled out the party's radio station for criticism, accusing it of insulting his own party. He warned Funcinpec that it should monitor its media "to avoid any conflicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballots and Bullets | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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