Word: williamsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the media focused on Williamson County's squeamishness About Apple Computer's human resources policy--a juicy story in a country obsessed with health care--the real scoop was that this desolate prairie outpost had promised Apple $750,000 for choosing the county as the site of a new customer service center...
...local zoning board or a state-level bureaucracy knows that such bodies are hardly Institutions (with a capital `I') worthy of respect, so much as institutions (as in "mental') for those with pathologically underdeveloped intellects and overdeveloped egos. How are folks like the cloven-hooved aspiring-deacons of the Williamson County Commission supposed to hold their own against the likes of Apple and its army of Ivy-league lawyer/consultant mercenaries? It's as though Homer Simpson were to take on Gary Kasparov in a chess match. Or to adopt a closer analogy, like the Undergraduate Council attempting to negotiate with...
...both Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson and Goldin, Harvard's leading economic historians, defended his scholarship as objective...
...While Fogel applies economics to history, North applies history to economics," Williamson said...
...didn't change the lecture," said ElizabethA. Williamson '95. "He wasn't putting on a show;he's always very personable...