Word: projects
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...very least, however, China's new military tools will alter the balance of power in Asia. Explains Ralph Cossa, who heads the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies in Honolulu: "China isn't trying to project power to San Francisco Bay. It's trying to project power to the South China Sea." Though China's leaders may want to restore their nation to its traditional Middle Kingdom status as Asia's dominant power, they must still face a formidable U.S. military presence in the Pacific. That doesn't necessarily mean war, but it almost certainly means more tension...
...Marriott project manager Preston Joyce, 36, who lost his right arm in a motorcycle accident at age 18 and wears a prosthesis, bolsters Keegan's assertions. Hired by the company in 1984, he is a technology specialist in the human resources department. He was one of the first in the company to get a computer with all the control keys on one side, plus small touches like a cubicle that organizes his equipment and supplies on his left side. "I'm looked at as an individual who does his job well, not as someone who is missing an arm," Joyce...
Hewlett-Packard provides, among other things, Braille books, interpreters and text telephone (TTY) service--phone conversations in which an operator transcribes a hearing person's response that is transmitted and read by a deaf person on a text telephone screen. Patty O'Sullivan, 39, H-P's diversity project administrator, who has been with the company for 13 years, is an avid user of the technology. O'Sullivan, who is deaf, conducted her interview with TIME via TTY. Her employer also has an interpreter available if she is meeting with people in a large group and would have a hard...
...loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic questions about education, such as how much homework kids should receive." Of his own education history, Ratnesar says, "I didn't take homework very seriously. I never won the award for the best science project." He did not lack for ways to occupy his time, however. Ratnesar played three musical instruments, soccer and tennis, and edited his high school paper. He believes that while students today are assigned more homework than he endured, "it's still not very focused, at least...
Tsutsumi doesn't kid. He met with Samaranch at a Tokyo hotel and discussed the I.O.C. head's pet project: an Olympic museum on the banks of Lake Geneva in Lausanne. Tsutsumi lined up 19 Japanese corporations, and together they contributed $20 million to build Samaranch's hall of fame. Tsutsumi was awarded the Gold Olympic Order, and Nagano was eventually awarded the Games, by four votes out of 88 total. On 60 Minutes, Helmick said of the Tsutsumi tsunami, "There's nothing wrong with Japanese industrialists donating millions of dollars to Samaranch's project. There is something wrong with...