Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...recent innovation is the combination of some Ashoka operations with McKinsey's expertise. In the slums of Sao Paolo, Brazil, an Ashoka entrepreneur named Leonardo Pessina was able to build high-quality housing at less than half the normal construction cost by getting the community to provide much of the labor. But managing a huge construction operation threatened to overwhelm even the committed Pessina. So McKinsey made available about 25% of its local staff as volunteers to manage the project. And the consulting firm received a major payback. "McKinsey has an understanding of the local housing market that it never...
This strategy has been effective, but it has also meant that the debate has taken place on what is often dubious grounds. Death alone does not trigger a tax; passing on a large estate does. And those mom-and-pop sob stories are overblown. The fact is, less than 2% of the federal revenue derived from estate taxes comes from farms and small businesses...
...When the haunt ceases to be a set of eerie manifestations and begins to take on shape and form, all the spooky fun tends to drain out of these pictures. This one becomes a variation on the Fatal Attraction theme, but with more muscular action and, finally, a lot less plausibility. That's too bad, because the early wit of Clark Gregg's writing and some persuasive direction and playing are drowned out by the doomed, desperate search for a persuasive ending...
...admits, the U.N. gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that's run by people," he says, "it's imperfect." Turner points out that he gives quite a bit of money to the U.S. government in taxes, and the last time he checked, that was less than a lean, clean operation. He feels compelled to donate to the U.N. in part because the U.S. has not been paying its membership dues. "The U.N. has bills just like any other organization," Turner says, citing U.N.-sponsored environment and family-planning organizations as being among the recipients...
...their prurience indulged." Could Scully turn out not to be pregnant at all? "I would never assume anything in 'The X-Files.' But I think that would be a real cheat... It would be like bringing back a dead character." Which, by the by, the series has more or less done with Cigarette-Smoking Man. So he's really dead this time, right, Chris? "I'm not going to tell...