Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next week a Taiwanese father-and-daughter business team is scheduled to be tried for paying a U.S. research engineer to pilfer manufacturing secrets from label maker Avery Dennison. Another Taiwan-based executive goes on trial in early April, charged with attempting to buy the secret formula for Bristol-Myers Squibb's cancer drug Taxol for $400,000--just one of many alleged plots to fleece R. and D.-rich pharmaceutical firms. Last spring a Gillette consultant went to prison for trying to market secret designs of the company's Mach3 razor to competitors such as Bic. And a small...
...depends on what they're looking for. For some people, you just listen. You don't say much except to assure them that it's okay," the other co-director says. "If someone's looking for help we coach people through. It isn't formula...
...Monica Lewinsky had begun to feel fixed and formulated by the eyes of the public, the prosecutors and the media, last week was her chance to change the formula. It was an elaborate affair, spanning continents and media formats, involving a small army of press flacks and a red river of Club Monaco lipstick. Memorialized by a sympathetic biographer, humanized by Barbara Walters and glamorized by an upcoming European tour, Monica was reborn in warm pools of soft publicity...
Romeo is no exception. Over 1,000 workers who clean and cook and guard and serve at Harvard earn less than their student counterparts, despite seniority. Dishwashers paying for medicine, groceries and baby formula are making less then students looking for beer and book money. Sixty-year-old janitors for whom sanitation is a career are making less than 18-year-olds for whom Dorm Crew will appear under "other activities" on their resumes at best...
Anyhow, in Rambouillet the Kosovars balked at Washington's half-elephant, half-mouse formula precisely because it avoided deciding on independence. In the march of history, borders change, states come and go. How the West settles Kosovo is going to set precedents for how our era manages that, like...