Word: objections
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...buyers agreed to pay more for services whose workers are based in their home countries. Such a scenario, however, seems unlikely. In the 1970s, car buyers didn't hesitate to choose Toyotas and Hondas when they proved cheaper or more reliable than Fords and Fiats. Shoppers didn't object in the 1980s and 1990s when factories making their toys and tennis shoes moved to Mexico or China. Customers are unlikely to care-or know-whether their computer program was written in India or the U.S. For customers, it doesn't make much difference if their tax preparer, telephone operator...
...Equally key, the Muslim community must be encouraged to use the democratic process?and must do so. The "justification" for previous incidents of terrorism has included British foreign policy. The message to and within the Muslim community must be clear: the way to object to this policy is not by picking up arms and joining the death cult of suicide bombings. The way to object is by raising one's voice and joining the democratic dialogue. In addition to winning the battle for hearts and minds, Brown will need to legislate for effective antiterrorism measures that are compatible with...
...object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25--July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, LAGOS...
...Bulli may be the most fussed-over restaurant in the world, its 33-course meals the object of countless gastronomic pilgrimages, its 8,000 reservations per season snapped up in a single day, its edible foams and spheres now part of the contemporary culinary vocabulary. But since its famous chef, Ferran Adrià, was named a featured artist in this year's edition of Documenta, the provocative contemporary art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany...
Eating Around the World I object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25-July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, lagos...