Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As eBay's only full-time employee, Omidyar soon found himself thrust into a new and unwanted role: grievance officer. Buyers and sellers with complaints about each other were e-mailing him personally and asking him to step in. Omidyar urged them to work things out amicably between themselves. But...
On the other hand, Tudjman was willing to negotiate and to uphold a dialogue. Consequently, he prevented an all-out war, which would have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths on all sides and could have led to the destruction of the country.
Building one is no cakewalk, however. Sites are difficult to acquire. Prospective residents must spend years in long meetings with architects, bureaucrats and neighborhood groups. They must be willing to put up thousands in advance for units that cost slightly more than mainstream condos. (One-bedroom Southside flats went for...
Senior Joel Kuhns, who was in Harris' video class last year, says that this year, "a lot of seniors have been more open to people, even to underclassmen. This is the class that they're going to look at to see what happened afterward. I just think that's a...
Even in this gilded era of unsurpassed profit for biotech and pharmaceutical conglomerates, one company always struck analysts as something of a black sheep. The Monsanto Company, whose subsidiary Searle makes the wildly successful arthritis drug Celebrex, has been casting around for a merger partner for over a year, and...