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...bleak realities-and the talents of a turnaround artist. "The global economic landscape will be changed for at least a generation," the authors write. "Preparing for that eventuality now is essential." Perhaps because they have more to lose from not doing so, the cream of the crop has been better able to cope. Fifty-five percent of market leaders - according to sales figures - grew revenues in 2008, the authors note - a significant leap from the 40% of second and third-place companies that notched gains. That may be the least surprising element of this short, scary report. Shrewd management...
...bailout, Kekst & Co. focuses on sales of assets to pay back federal loans, Burson-Marsteller handles controversial issues and Hill & Knowlton fields inquiries from Capitol Hill and prepares congressional testimony for company officials. "If the criticism was we were running image-advertising or doing sponsorships to make ourselves look better, I could see that," Ashooh said. "But we're doing a lot of information-processing. It's really been just responding to inquiries" from Congress and the media...
...Things that could be done are to avoid spraying when possible,” Quinn said. “Wiping is better than spraying, any thing that aerosols should be avoided. Also, have ventilation is important...
...good to be derived from it? That Harold Bloom’s cantankerous—I think you use the word “imperious”—nature, that he is a grumpy old man, proves that the routine of reading does not make one a better person? To thus write off the whole endeavor as merely a pleasurable exercise seems wholly precipitous, even ignorant. (Though, of course, the fact that I’m writing you rather indignantly, and perhaps rather imperiously myself, having nurtured this grudge against your article for a third of my life...
With thousands of miles of sun-kissed coastline, Brazil is a beach nation, one where people like nothing better than to spend weekends and holidays with a cold one on the sand. But the chances of spotting suntanned beauties in tiny bikinis are getting smaller and smaller, according to a government study released this week. Research shows that the number of Brazilians suffering from obesity is growing. And the trend toward the fuller figure is most prevalent among women. "Obesity among women had stabilized in previous studies, and now there is an expressive increase," says Deborah Malta, the study...