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Fair Trade certification ensures consumers that their coffee importer meets a strict list of criteria aimed at protecting the individual farmers. The mark ensures that farmers received competitive prices for their product. An importer must pay a minimum $1.26 per pound—a price that guarantees farmers a decent living wage. Fair Trade programs are able to pay the higher rate by reducing the market role played by the intermediary—essentially cutting out the abusive middleman...
...despite the strict atmosphere, Wechsler’s undergraduate life was filled with adventure. He traveled to Washington for peace protests and hitchhiked across the country and to Canada over holidays and weekends...
...quirk is that I exist basically on a strict diet of Pinnochio’s pizza...
...Harvard, however, Schaffer found the football program too regimented for his liking. “Football in a college setting…is more like the military,” writes Schaffer. “There is a strict chain of command in its arrangement of both players and coaches. Players report to position coaches, who report to offensive or defensive coordinators, who then report to the head coach. All orders are to be followed eagerly and wholeheartedly, with little room for dissent...
...University has been careful to lay down strict guidelines for its relationship with industry. Each school has its own conflict of interest policy requiring professors to report their financial interests. And the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), in which many of the most important scientific discoveries are made, has committees on professional conduct and research policy to ensure compliance...