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Vice President Cheney has always prided himself on imperviousness to Beltway hysteria, since he has no plans to seek the top job. But it was that very detachment, which President Bush has generally seen as an asset, that helped produce the missteps in the aftermath of Cheney's weekend hunting accident. The PR crisis has now thrown the White House off its intended message - heard much about health savings accounts lately?- and raised questions about its ability to handle a crisis...
...Terriers (16-8-2, 13-6-1 Hockey East) have lifted nine trophies in that time alone, which is one less than Harvard’s title total since the tournament’s inception. “I think it’s a factor more as an asset for [Boston University],” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said of the Terriers’ win streak. “I personally didn’t feel any added pressure [because of it].” “It’s been...
...Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik, who has worked on research projects with Velasco, said that his colleague would be a great asset to the Chilean government...
Although Disney is buying Pixar's talents in digital animation, including proprietary software, the key asset is more prosaic: Pixar's superior skill at telling stories. "We won't let anything get ahead of the quality of the story," Pixar president Ed Catmull told TIME. "It's meant we have not increased production at the rate we have wanted...
...result of the acquisition binge: HSBC's asset base exploded, from $472 billion in 1997 to nearly $1.5 trillion by mid-2005. The bank has a global footprint matched only by that of Citigroup, which has slightly larger assets than HSBC. HSBC has also become a very, very different bank. In 1997 nearly half its revenues came from emerging markets; today less than 20% does, according to Morgan Stanley...