Word: saxon
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...conservative presidential candidate, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, called her idea "an attack on the Republic." In fact, as Royal's staff noted in a quickly disseminated clarification, such popular juries are nothing new; Royal first voiced the idea back in 2002, and well before that it emerged from "Anglo-Saxon theories of empowerment." For years, such selective citizens' committees have been used in Berlin to steer municipal policies where citizens thought they ought to go, and in Scandinavia to get a handle on controversial issues like genetically modified foods...
...hand on the steering wheel too--making VW notoriously unwieldy. Representatives of government, trade unions and Porsche, which owns a stake in VW, follow their own interests, so decisions can take eons by American standards. The state of Lower Saxony, for instance, holds a stake in the company, and Saxon politicians routinely pressure VW to maintain jobs and generous benefits in the hinterland. VW's unions, also powerful, recently agreed to extend the workweek--to 35 hours for factory workers, up from 28.8 hours. In return VW promised to keep production of the next-generation Golf in Germany. "Such deals...
Discrimination has a long and hoary tradition at Harvard. At first, students were all white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, and male. Eventually, men of other faiths were admitted, as were men of color. Finally, with the merger of Radcliffe, women became full members of the Harvard community. In the past decade, the changes have accelerated; the advent of affirmative action has made diversity of every form a goal of most universities.As it should be. But while we firmly believe that a diverse campus is a strong campus, a new frontier has been reached that deserves further scrutiny—affirmative action...
...single country in Europe has the resources to develop a world-beating aircraft manufacturer on its own. The core notion of cooperation is still valid, says James Foreman-Peck, a professor at Cardiff Business School who specializes in European industrial policy, "but these days, Airbus just confirms Anglo-Saxon prejudices that governments waste large amounts of taxpayers' money even when they have a good idea." Untangling Airbus' wiring will prove plenty tough, but untangling its management snarls may be the hardest task...
...English has been amusingly defined as the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon barmaids. Its pragmatic, flexible nature has always been one of its great strengths. Make English the official language, and you will lose that strength. Why? Because if we make English the official language, then we must officially define what English is and is not. The French did this with their mother tongue, and what was once the international language of diplomacy has become an increasingly unimportant and backwater dialect. Joseph Power Mountain View, California...