Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Actually, the attitude of the government took this form right back to the 1960s. I was visited by Mr. Jimmy Kruger, who was Minister of Justice, several times. I was visited by Mr. ((Louis)) Le Grange, who is now the Speaker of Parliament. Leading VIPs, both local and abroad, were allowed to visit me. The attitude of the government was contradictory. Despite the harsh treatment, they were prepared to have discussions with me. During the past three years, I started an initiative of talking to the government on the question of the release of prisoners and the question...
Morgan has succeeded overseas by insinuating itself into the local business culture and hiring mostly local employees, a technique many Japanese firms spurned in their forays onto Wall Street. In Japan some 500 of Morgan's 600 employees are Japanese, most of them hired right out of the best schools or lured away from prominent local firms with promises of career paths to top- ranking posts. One area of expertise Morgan has brought to Japan is cross- border merger advice, a field in which the company ranks No. 1. Morgan is also prominent in Europe, where it completed $20.5 billion...
Then one day last month, county water testers in North Carolina, who use Perrier's purity in their labs to gauge local water quality, found that the French product was contaminated with excessive levels of benzene, a solvent used, among other things, to make Styrofoam. The Food and Drug Administration ordered random tests and found similar benzene levels in 13 bottles. FDA officials noted that there was not much danger. Drinking two small bottles of contaminated Perrier a day, they estimated, would increase one's lifetime risk of cancer by only one in a million...
...predominantly male science departments: "They were invited over to the Bunting Institute for cocktails, and the Harvard male faculty just stood there, hardly speaking a word to the Bunting fellows, each a distinguished scholar in her own right...They're very happy slapping each other on the backs at local clubs, but put them with women and they shut up like clams...
...There are some issues that are better suited for the University to decide, but some are better suited for the people to determine in each of the local units--different people, different kinds of employees. Policies and services need to be tailored to those environments," said McKinney...