Word: rices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rice's speech at the Harvard Business School (HBS) was part of a day-long conference, "Reversing the Brain Drain," organized by the school's Africa Business Club...
...Rice, who is responsible for all aspects of U.S. policy on Africa as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs, said, "The U.S. can hardly afford to ignore any emerging market or Africa's 700 million consumers...
According to Rice, there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all of Africa, and 50 percent of all Africans are under the age of 15. She hinted that these statistics, along with Africa's climbing growth rates, are just the tip of the African business opportunity iceberg...
Citing examples such as Coca-Cola's $35 million production and distribution plant in Angola and clothing company The Limited, Inc.'s plan to develop stores in Mauritius and Madagascar, Rice urged her listeners, most of whom were originally from Africa, to take their business know-how back to their communities...
Most conference participants said Rice offered a good summary for those not intimately familiar with U.S. policy on Africa...