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Typically, choosing blockmates is one of the hardest decisions to make at Harvard. It can involve difficult conversations, hurt feelings and even broken friendships...
...trains a burger flipper to use a computer to monitor inventory," says Shapiro, "the employee's new skills may enable him to win a better position with Red Lobster or K Mart, and the competitor reaps the benefit of McDonald's training investment." This market failure hits average workers hardest. As Clinton has noted time and again, large corporations spend whatever is necessary to ensure that their executives are up to date on management techniques because, says Shapiro, "improving the decisions of supervisors produces higher returns from the workers they direct." Those at the top receive the education and training...
...Every road game is hard in the Ivy League and to start by winning what I think are three of what I think are the hardest road games was just a great boost. Now we have such momentum going into exam period...
That is because those pushing hardest for AIDS research are Westerners who already have HIV, says the U.N.'s Piot. "Their primary concern is to find a cure," he says. "The same pressure hasn't been there for healthy people from the developing world." Private drug companies, for their part, have been disinclined to spend heavily on vaccine development because vaccines are generally less profitable. Piot explains, "In most countries, vaccines are purchased by governments, not by individuals. Taxpayers are footing the bill, which keeps prices down." The same is not true of therapeutics. According to a report...
...piece orchestra whose members had never before played together. Lloyd Webber was upset with the musicians, Parker had first-day jitters and Madonna went home in tears. "I was so nervous," she says, "because I knew that Andrew had had reservations about me, and here I'm singing the hardest song in the piece. And all of a sudden there with everybody for the first time, it was really tense." Lloyd Webber and Parker met with her later, decided to bring in a new conductor and musicians, and started the recording sessions over from scratch...