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...legislative history of aid-in-dying measures also gives them cause to be wary. An Oregon-type voter initiative failed by only 2 percentage points in Maine in 2001, and a similar statute was narrowly defeated in Hawaii in 2002. Recent legislation was tabled in Wisconsin, Wyoming and Arizona. But with two Academy Award--winning movies this year featuring themes of assisted suicide--Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside--momentum, or at least public awareness, is clearly on the rise...
...came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads. "What the heck," he told them. "After China, this is nothing." Reckless attitude? Chao would probably call it risk arbitrage...
...your side advisers who know China inside out. This week, our story Let it Rain! profiles five such guides, including one who learned his key business lessons when exiled to the Gobi Desert during the Cultural Revolution, and another who likes to take Chinese partners mountain biking in Arizona...
...fared better in the consolation bracket, winning three matches in a row against Central Michigan’s Luke Smith, Nebraska’s Matt Keller, and Arizona State’s Jeremy Mendoza...
...then the stock abruptly hit a wall. Just days after the company wrapped up its best year ever, with $68 million in revenues, the SEC and the Arizona attorney general announced informal investigations of the company, and Taser warned shareholders that the pace of new orders might slow down. In the first 11 days of January, Taser's shares lost nearly 60% of their value...