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Those start-up difficulties have been smoothed out, and because Lewis' embroiderers earn more than they would get at a factory, the enterprise attracts the best talent. The workers also are paid a monthly bonus of around 8% and a larger one at the Vietnamese New Year, roughly equal to two-thirds of their monthly salary. Each year the designer takes the 120 sewers in Ho Chi Minh City on an all-expenses-paid weekend vacation...
...professorial mentor. "When they called," he says, "I thought, How are you going to cheapen this industry? We have enough problems without this." Instead, the show-co-produced by the team behind Project Greenlight, a savvy look at moviemaking-scored an Emmy nomination. "I think people wanted to see talent in reality TV," says Klum, "instead of mixing worms and maggots and seeing who can drink it the fastest...
...line). Runway, which gives the winner $100,000 seed money and a car, has no financial stake in the winner's future-whereas Idol signs its champ to a contract with its producer-so the judges encourage creative risks, not commercial acceptability. And unlike The Apprentice, it ultimately rewards talent, not backstabbing. (Last season the one designer who played mind games, Wendy Pepper, was roundly defeated in the finale...
...engage their surroundings are easily manipulated. For instance, in casinos new money scent is pumped into the air to subconsciously reduce gamblers’ inhibitions about risking money.” Professor Stilgoe reports that many Environmental Studies graduates are presently working in advertising, an industry in which a talent for artful manipulation is highly prized.Architects also benefit from an understanding of how environment shapes behavior. Professor Stilgoe uses shopping mall design as an example: “If you walk through a shopping mall concourse you’ll notice large groups of people stopping and gathering in spaces...
...Clock Show.” It was a spoof news program in the same vein as the news correspondents’ reports on “The Daily Show.” Though you may not have heard of the show, its roster was deep with talent: Both Sacha Baron Cohen (aka “Ali G”) and Ricky Gervais (David Brent of TV’s “The Office” and current star of “Extras”) were regular contributors.You also probably haven’t heard of Daisy Donovan, another...