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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...
...Widening Grounds In our story on Asia's divorce boom [April 5], we said that in the Philippines, "the grounds for annulment of a marriage have been widened ... to include cases where one partner has a low IQ." In fact, the grounds for annulment are in the process of being widened to include such cases...
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...
...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...