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...Outsourcing to myriad tiny specialized workshops was the key to local industrial organization until the late 19th century, when a few pioneers had the idea of bringing all these craftsmen together under one roof. The Billodes factory, which opened in Le Locle in 1865, was among these precursors. But as the peasant-craftsmen became factory workers, a new means of passing on their specialized know-how became necessary. "It's the factories that created the modern training system," says Gérard Triponez, director of the college in Le Locle. "Before then, craftsmen would train a couple of apprentices themselves...
...Part of that cool, he will tell you, emanates from his success in myriad businesses. But others will claim that it is an image created as much by buying off and bullying the press. He's not shy about throwing his clout around, and that's caused critics and a sometimes-hostile press to label him an authoritarian. But in Thailand, being rich is considered a virtue, and being very rich is practically godly. Thaksin benefits from being one of the country's richest men, with a fortune estimated at more than $1.2 billion and interests in sectors ranging from...
...easy to come up with myriad reasons why compensation is a can of worms, and would distract the conference from the urgent tasks of remedying and combating racism and allied evils in the 21st century. At the same time, it's also easy to understand the ire of those in the developing world pushing for such a discussion. People robbed, murdered or forced into slavery by the Nazis have been paid compensation by a generation of Germans who had nothing to do with those crimes; why, many Africans and their supporters ask, should the descendants of slavery in the Americas...
Most often we use the latter term to describe the police practice of stopping people for "driving while black," but there are myriad permutations. Actor Danny Glover held a press conference in 1999 because cabdrivers weren't stopping for him in New York City; some called this "hailing while black." In May the American Civil Liberties Union got the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to repay $7,000 it had seized from a black businessman in the Omaha, Neb., airport on the (quite false) theory that it was drug money. The A.C.L.U. called it "flying while black." Dr. Lauren Shaiova...
Former provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 describes how at the end of the day, Rudenstine would often stop by to chat informally, outside of their myriad formal meetings...