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...Balance in former world heavyweight-boxing champ Mike Tyson's bank account...
Today, in many aspects of corporate life, there are more female moguls than ever, and women-owned businesses are growing at a rate of 11% a year, double the growth rate of all business. In the U.S., women account for or influence 80% of buying decisions. Of course, talent is not a gender issue, as Karan points out, in spite of so much of the innovation in fashion in the past century having come from women. So why is it that when you look at those ubiquitous lists of most recognized global brands, the names at the top inevitably...
...book--waitresses, shelf stockers, farm laborers, plus the social workers, union organizers and job trainers around them and the employers who take them on, not all of whom are crocodiles. His book lacks the first-person focus and angry wit of Nickel and Dimed, TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich's account of her attempts to get by on $6 or $7 an hour. But poverty is in the details, and he lays those out in abundance...
...rebate for firms selling abroad. Multinationals operating in China complained. "Foreign companies were hurt disproportionately because so many are set up for export and expected that rebate," says a senior executive of Motorola, which sells Chinese-made mobile phones around the world. Sales from foreign companies operating in China account for more than half of China's exports. That has made U.S. businesses especially wary of American protectionism, and small U.S. firms trying to compete with China receive little sympathy from their larger cousins. One justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap...
...publicity, or a sign that things in Moscow are getting ugly in the run up to the March 14 election? When Rybkin told his story late last week at a press conference in London, where he had fled, it was the third version he had offered. In the first account, he said he'd gone for a rest in Kiev. The next day he'd told a confused story of constant surveillance by the FSB, the state security agency, and growing concern for his safety while in the Ukrainian capital. Now - presumably free to speak the truth, although his wife...