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...Kudrin said that the assets of embattled oil major Yukos would soon be sold off in a transparent, legal way; Gazpromneft seems likely to take the spoils. Luxury Goody Two-Shoes N o loafing here: Gucci has agreed to become the first luxury fashion house to abide by a stringent voluntary labor code, the company confirmed last week to TIME. The leather and apparel firm, a division of France 's Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, pledged earlier this month that Gucci headquarters outside Florence and a nearby production oversight facility will soon face regular audits to see that they meet international standards...
...rich use of language, which at its best reflects "the pell-mell, absurd, bountiful, magical nature of the Philippines," in Ong's generous phrase. Yet if this gifted writer is to realize his potential as a novelist-bard for the Philippines, his vision needs to be tempered by a stringent course of narrative basics...
...billion Revenue lost by international companies since 2002, caused by delays in putting foreign employees to work due to more stringent U.S. immigration controls, according to a recent survey
...daunting zero-tolerance discipline policy; that is, whether inadvertent or otherwise, according to the student handbook, plagiarism of any sort “will ordinarily result in disciplinary action, including but not limited to requirement to withdraw from the College.” But, it seems that this stringent policy—aimed to ensure sincere and scrupulous scholarship—does not extend to members of Harvard’s Faculty. Rather, after the recent reprimand of Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree for virtual verbatim plagiarism in his book All Deliberate Speed, it is apparent that Harvard?...
...highly bureaucratic. In the Veneto region of Italy, farmers providing holidays are limited to hosting 30 overnight guests per night for a maximum of 160 days per year and must produce over 50% of the food they sell to tourists. In Britain, Germany and elsewhere, there are stringent health and safety controls, including fire regulations and rules governing contact with farm animals. That might scare off a laid-back farmer, but in other places, especially poorer regions, including Poland, farmers are undeterred. Slawomir Bojar, a Polish electronics specialist, got into the agritourism business last year because he was looking...