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...their staff in top shape. "The best crew is a crew that is always working together as a team," says Mark Mitchell, owner of the motor yacht Sovereign. A well-trained staff knows how best to define what guests want out of a charter. They know how to quickly tweak itineraries and deal with demanding requests. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a resort that has the ratio of staff to guests that a charter has," says Jeff Beneville, a broker at Camper & Nicholsons...
...World Bank, have wrested control of the land and what grows on it from the hands of farmers and have given it to corporations and bureaucrats. Supermarket procurement desks, he writes, "can fire the poorest farm workers in South Africa, flip the fates of coffee growers in Guatemala or tweak the output of paddy terraces in Thailand." And yet, at the end of every day, mountains of food waste end up in the supermarket dumpsters and kitchen bins of the developed world while millions starve in poorer countries. For anyone who follows food politics, the arguments made here...
...used the same offensive system since 1985,” head coach Tim Murphy says. “But you tweak it every year—you try to build a better mousetrap...
...notoriously averse to change and have a proven record of stopping reforms in their tracks - just ask Jacques Chirac, who in 1995 saw his modest plans for reforming the welfare state rejected by hundreds of thousands of angry protesters; or Dominique de Villepin, whose even more modest efforts to tweak the French youth labor market some 10 years later were similarly rejected. Even when the French do not bring down governments with their feet, they bring them down with their ballots - in every parliamentary election since 1978 and before 2007, the French voted out whichever party they had voted...
...Nihonga, which showcased talents like Matsui and Kumi Machida, whose idiosyncratic ink portraits of macabre toylike figures are the product of supreme painterly skill. You could call these painters "neo-nihonga," a term popularized by the album-cover designer turned fine artist Hisashi Tenmyouya, whose brilliantly colored acrylic paintings tweak symbols of Japanese nationalism and culture. They may be diverse in style, theme and personality, but what these artists have in common is a fierce devotion to the meticulous work ethic of the solo painter-a welcome change for a scene defined for over a decade by the brand-conscious...