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...booking here, a few visitors there. Despite official supplications, most people remain in situ. "SARS is here to stay, just like high-security checks" is the blunt summary of Jennifer Cronin, area marketing manager of the Grand Hyatt Singapore...
...operations in South America and then gave him the job of restructuring Michelin North America after it bought Uniroyal in 1990. By the time Renault hired him and sent him to Tokyo to fix Nissan (which Renault controls), he had picked up five languages (Japanese is his sixth), a blunt decision-making style and a knack for blending corporate cultures...
...population. But nearly everyone, it seems, is afflicted with fear. What began as a mysterious, remote illness has become a national crisis of confidence that is threatening to cripple the Chinese economy and shake the ruling Communist Party to its foundations. The central government attempted last week to blunt mounting outrage over reports--first detailed in TIME and TIME's Asian edition--that health authorities had systematically underreported the number of SARS cases in China and willfully deceived representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) on their visits to Beijing hospitals. On April 20, the national Health Minister was fired...
...broadly diversified international mutual fund, such as Oakmark International or William Blair International Growth, helps blunt risk. If you can handle more volatility, consider a fund like T. Rowe Price Latin America to take advantage of that region's anticipated fast growth...
Bashar Assad, Syria's baby-faced, blunt-spoken President, probably never imagined he would be going head to head with the U.S. over the future of the Middle East. That was more the kind of mission relished by his late father Hafez Assad, the stern military commander who ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000. Bashar's humble ambition was to leave politics to others in the clan and become a doctor. In the early '90s he went to London to study ophthalmology. There he courted his wife Asma, a young banker of Syrian origin...