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...What other choice is there for a new business? As their companies grew, the emphasis shifted to employees. Whole Foods and the Container Store pay better than most retailers, offer good benefits and entrust workers at all levels with sensitive financial data. The idea is that happy, empowered employees beget happy customers. Happy suppliers help too. All this stakeholder joy eventually redounds to the benefit of shareholders--but the magic fades if shareholders become the focus. "There's a harmonic effort that takes place, like a chorus is so much more beautiful than a single voice," says Tindell...
...Desperate times beget desperate measures, and this is in the Hail Mary category.' RICK SEANEY, CEO of Farecompare.com an airline-ticket research site, on American Airlines' decision to charge $15 per checked bag to fight soaring fuel costs...
...tell the nation's beleaguered airlines that they have an image problem. So why has American Airlines decided to charge already unhappy passengers $15 each way for a single checked bag, as it announced Wednesday? "Desperate times beget desperate measures, and this is in the Hail Mary category," says Rick Seaney, CEO of consumer airline ticket research site Farecompare.com...
...While some may deem this reconciliation utopian, what is truly far-fetched is the insistence that violence can beget peace—the assertion that the elimination of “terrorists” is literally achievable. Has recent history not made clear that all the illegitimate wars, all the indiscriminate bombings, all the illegal torture, produce only retaliatory madness? Until progressives can mobilize against policies that see the solution to terror mostly in its more effective application, we are destined to live and relive the barbarity of the present...
...another euphemism: the pretense that a Harvard education is “international.” The notion appears consonant with the College’s diverse student body, as well as the global ambitions of the newly released curriculum. But insofar as a global education is made to beget thinking in global terms, ours has fared poorly...