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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bloom started working for unions after college during the financial downturn of the early 1980s, he concluded that they were not equipped to do the deals they needed to save their jobs. So after Harvard Business School, he set up a shop at the investment bank Lazard Frères that focused on counseling unions in leveraging their collective bargaining power to maximum effect. He pioneered the deals that took retirement and health benefits off company books and protected those benefits for workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Auto Odd Couple Tries to Save Detroit | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...when he was rapping, he made me feel like he was saying, 'Can't you see us?' That was his vibe, and that's what I called the album." Tricky's intuition is right: on a track with the working title "Afrique," Ndiaye scream-raps "Mes frères ont souffert, bordel de merde! (My brothers have suffered, goddammit)" over a North African melody and rhythm guitars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricky Taps Into the Sound of the Paris Ghetto | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...This is especially important because of UN negligence in the region; the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières has accused the UN of “ignoring” violence currently committed in the northeast of the Congo. Moreover, the UN has limited resources and cannot devote all its attention to Africa...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Crowning the King of Kings | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...doing some last-minute Christmas shopping. A purely theoretical situation, we're sure. You walk into a Best Buy to check out digital cameras. One model has a higher resolution than another, but you can't tell the difference in picture quality. The higher res camera costs an extra $120 and doesn't come in the color you want. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swaying Shoppers: The Power of Product Specs | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...young ones of the poor Maghreb are inextricably linked, and that institutions need to be built to ensure that those futures are happy ones. And when one turns to nonstate actors, European engagement in the world is striking. From ngos like Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace, to the actions of two scruffy (but very, very rich) Irish rock stars, Europeans have been in the forefront of the movement to put a human face on globalization. (Read world leaders' view of Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Road Ahead | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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