Since the subject of diversity often appears on the pages of the ADN, I believe the readers would be interested to learn some interesting cases which could be called the ultimate diversity.Just recently, the Metropolitan Opera hired a diversity promotion officer — I am not joking. It remains to be seen if the singers would start singing any better.
But the classic example is historical. In the 1940s and 1950s, the U.S. government hired both former Nazis and communists to work on the Manhattan Project and on the Saturn lunar rockets as long as they could deliver. To deliver was, is and is always going to be an ultimate criteria in serious cases, regardless of who the workers are.
— Rudy J. Budesky
Anchorage
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