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But with its members dominating the panel, China not only rejected any increase but diluted democracy further by giving extra weight to the votes of the indirectly elected legislators -- those chosen mainly by groups representing such constituencies as business, the professions and labor. Next month Hong Kong will have a...
During the past decade or so, interior decorators have been successfully lobbying to upgrade the nomenclature of their trade: they now insist on being called interior designers. Which is fine, except that for all the nominal professionalism, interior design remains for the most part a trivial pursuit that prizes fancy...
Bok, who taught labor law before he was named president in 1970, said he hopes to write about the differences in compensation among various occupations. Specifically, Bok said he will examine questions of why people in some professions are paid more than others, and "how strong an ethical base these...
Least Timely Utterance. RJR Nabisco chief Ross Johnson, who was proposing a $25 billion buyout of the company, stood to make $100 million on the deal but failed to show much sympathy for the employees who might be transferred or laid off. They had, he said, "very portable types of...
The $965 aviation headset, made by Bose, a Framingham, Mass., manufacturer of hi-fi speakers, is one of the latest applications of antinoise, a surprising new technology that is changing the way people block unwanted sounds -- from the whine of electrical transformers to the rumble of internal- combustion engines -- while...