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...level. By bringing together a top-notch management team with some of the best brands in the field--from WestSoy soy milk and Celestial Seasonings teas to Terra and Garden of Eatin' chips, Health Valley cereals and soups and Earth's Best baby foods--Simon believes healthy food can attain the kind of healthy bottom line enjoyed by its more mainstream cousins...
...that institutions can enable individuals to perform to their maximum. And it bothers him when individuals do not perform to their maximum,” Goldin said. She added that Summers is “really dedicated to changing institutions” so that women can attain leadership roles throughout academia...
...occasionally viewed as an indication of dependence and lack of self-discipline, the similarities end there. Obesity is a far more complicated condition that results from the interplay of genetics, socio-cultural cues and environmental factors. While someone may consciously take up smoking, few if any consciously decide to attain that coveted cool state of morbid obesity. One does not inhale a Twinkie, thus resigning oneself to the health hazards that accompany obesity, the way one picks up and inhales a Marlboro...
...long time. Plus, the most strenuous thing many of us have to do these days is to flick the remote control. Prosperity encourages a sedentary lifestyle. The trouble is that our bodies are being fattened along with our wallets. On the other hand, some women are starving themselves to attain hourglass figures and in the process are getting sick from poor nutrition. If that trend goes on, Indian females may soon be nothing but skin and bones. Jagmohan Rathi Ghaziabad, India...
Despite achieving encouraging results in the first few quarters post merger--results easy to attain with one-time cost cutting but hard to sustain--Unisys' cumulative net income in the decade after the merger failed to break even. If you had invested $1 in Burroughs at the end of 1985, that $1--right smack in the middle of one of the greatest stock-market booms in history--would have lost nearly half its value over the subsequent decade. And while Unisys has returned to profitability in recent years, the merger failed to produce a great company...