By the age of 31, he had become the youngest partner in the firm's modern history.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Then, he suggests, the CIO should bring in young programmers who may be working in other parts of the firm but know modern programming languages, understand mobile and Web to work with mainframe programmers.

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Though a lover of modern art, Mr Danto is firm with its more formalist and doctrinaire champions, particularly Clement Greenberg, a critic who dominated the New York art world at mid-century, much as Mr Danto, with a far quieter voice, stands out now.

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Excluding the engine, where efficiency will reach Italian levels only when a new engine plant is opened, it takes around 21 man-hours to build a Palio in Betim, or about two hours more than it would at Melfi, the firm's most modern Italian plant.

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The pope has stood firm against what he sees as modern decadence.

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But the Allegro 2, created by the design firm IDEO, is declunkified, streamlined and modern.

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The magic ingredient in modern sugarless gums is Xylitol, a sweetener made by a Danish firm from silver-birch pulp.

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The worship of shareholder value began in 1976 when a journal article by Michael Jensen, "Theory of the Firm, " critiqued the prior system of managerial capitalism and set the stage for our modern era of capitalism, writes Martin.

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