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...world-class advising should be part of the package. Individual concentration advisers and student-faculty dinners, two of the report’s proposals, are both steps in the right direction, serving to personalize what can be a highly impersonal academic experience. The review should go even further and wean the responsibility of advising away from graduate students except the few who possess an intimate knowledge of the Harvard undergraduate experience...
...perhaps Wal-Mart's greatest industry legacy will be helping supermarkets wean themselves from a slew of so-called vendor allowances, which suppliers pay to cover everything from how an item is promoted to how much shelf space it gets to how much of it is sold. These allowances have little to do with consumers and add complexity to operations. Yet the industry has relied on them for profits--instead of, say, finding and selling the stuff that shoppers really want. Grocery manufacturers, who have leaned on the allowance system to help launch new products and unload unpopular ones, were...
...America than anywhere else in the world; such taxes are relatively easy to collect; since an overwhelming majority of Americans drive, few avoid the tax; and by adding a cost to the wanton consumption of gasoline, you actually encourage conservation, accelerate fuel efficiency, reduce pollution, cut traffic and help wean Americans off the oil that requires the U.S. to be so intimately involved in that wonderful cesspool of rival hatreds, the Middle East. So what's not to like...
...instrument of fear. "If Joey said something, people jumped. They wanted to be endeared to Joey," he says. "If they didn't do what he said, he'd whack them. And if he even thought you were an informant, he'd have you killed." Colgan managed to persuade Ray Wean--a Bonanno man so huge that when Colgan once arrested him, he couldn't get the cuffs around Wean's thick wrists--to be an undercover informant and later testify for the prosecution at Massino's '87 trial. "Wean was a psychopath. He would've killed you and not batted...
...concept, and Dartboard will have to learn to sadly recite the simple word “large” after placing her orders. McDonald’s plans on “phasing” Super Size out—vanishing completely by December—in order to wean addicts like Dartboard gradually off, most likely to prevent vast withdrawal symptoms. Perhaps the evil lords of well-being will reconsider, but Dartboard may end up with nothing but a tale to tell her children of the long ago days of Super Sizing. Until then, Dartboard may have to take...