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Marriage Meltdown "Asia's divorce boom brings to light one of the worst effects of the cultural invasion of American concepts on the rest of the world." Agha Amir Ahsan Chaklala, Pakistan...
According to the federal General Accounting Office (GAO), 60 percent of U.S. companies did not pay corporate taxes between 1996 and 2000. Wasn’t that during a boom, you ask? Was that not the time during which government coffers should have swelled with the fruits of that juicy 33 percent corporate tax rate? It certainly should have been. Unfortunately, economics has once again shown that the incentives and rewards in the private sector are taking all the talented loophole-leapers away from the public sector, leaving public funding high and dry. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., said...
...only have a month to do them, so it's tight"). Then he may turn back to his troubled Bounce, which he and Weidman based on the lives of Wilson and Addison Mizner, brothers who got caught up in everything from the Alaska gold rush to the Florida land boom. The show has gone through two directors, three titles and several approaches--and still seemed to miss the mark in a Washington tryout last year. "I don't know what to do with that show because I like it the way it is," Sondheim says. "That's what's baffling...
...from a year ago (though still below its 52-week peak in January). On the heels of upward predictions by IDC and IC Insights, Gartner revised its estimates of global chip sales to call for a 23%-to-32% surge this year, but the boom probably won't last long. Gartner's latest report also lowered its 18% growth forecast...
...British Petroleum as a prime example: CEO John Browne turned the oil giant around by challenging frontline managers to solve existing problems and giving them time and consultants to create solutions. On the opposite side, Gardner says, John Chambers of Cisco Systems couldn't convince investors that the dotcom boom was the "second industrial revolution" because he didn't keep tabs on business-cycle research. He also didn't acknowledge investor resistance to mind change, the strength of traditional business models. Critically, the book outlines ways to change the most important mind: your...