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...worker-owned bakeries in the San Francisco Bay Area, took its name as well as its business plan from Mondragon. The companies share technical and financial resources - as well as proprietary recipes - and a portion of profits goes to funding new enterprises. The notion of cooperative artisan bakeries sounds quaint, but the group is thinking beyond the breadbox. "We consider this the very beginning phase," says Melissa Hoover of Arizmendi, who is also executive director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. She says the companies plan to develop more businesses and are researching possibilities "along the supply chain": trucking...
...angry wives and golf clubs, and Google makes no distinction between respectable news and what people really want to know. When Woods said in a statement on Dec. 2, "I have let my family down," while still insisting that "personal sins should not require press releases," it was as quaint and futile as President Barack Obama's calling Kanye West a jackass in front of reporters and then asking for take-backs. (See the screwups of Campaign...
This break in an almost century-old pattern coincided with great increases in occupational earnings differentials, which have continued to grow, seemingly exponentially. It seems quaint, if not unfathomable, that just three decades ago the differentials that then existed—generally two- to fivefold in earnings between business leaders and doctors and lawyers, or five- to tenfold with professors, scientists, and public servants—were often rationalized by the country’s highest-ranking graduates as reasonable additional compensation to balance the lower standing of business jobs among their peers...
...Sadly I got to enjoy neither, as I was quickly rushed into a small, lightless room sprinkled with the trash and human residue of former occupants. The kindly proctor who unsealed the plastic encasing me offered to get some of my stuff, to make the cell a little more quaint and comfortable. I asked him for my laptop, some books to read with all my free, imprisoned time, and a second pair of underwear. “No problem,” he smiled, heading right out, loosening my shackles and dead bolting the door as he left. Thirty minutes...
...people will find it funny and we’re working with some special effects this year, which will be cool,” she says. These effect-laden sequences, which include a scene where one character is swallowed into the fires of hell, help add action to the quaint humor on display throughout the opera...