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...first, he was puzzled by the fact that he seemed to find out more about his son's murder than the police had. Then he learned the reason: The UVF boss who allegedly ordered the killing was a police agent. Mark Haddock was a low-level informer when he first alleged to have killed in 1993 by shooting a Catholic woman while she cooked dinner for a sick Protestant friend. Despite having allegedly told police about the killing, he was kept on as an informer and his payments continued to increase...
...Stanford’s chief academic and budget officer, Etchemendy—whose boss is Stanford University president, John L. Hennessy—is “the number-two through which everything is funneled through to the number-one,” philosophy department chair Kenneth Taylor said...
...mayor, passing an ordinance to boost the wages that Big Box employers like Wal-Mart and Target would have to pay. In the end, Daley persuaded enough aldermen to reverse positions to ensure his veto wouldn't be overridden, demonstrating that "da Mayor" was still very much the boss...
Geography again saved the day. In 1979, Communist Party boss Deng Xiaoping began opening China to foreign investment, and Hong Kong manufacturers decamped to the mainland to take advantage of the vast supply of cheap workers. The trading firms stayed behind. In fact, as more work moved into China, locating a headquarters in Hong Kong, on the doorstep of southern China's industrial parks, became imperative. The trading firms quickly devised a new, cross-border manufacturing system. With poor technology and training, Chinese workers could complete basic product assembly but not the more complicated parts of a manufacturing process...
...Leibinger-Kammller, the boss at Trumpf, certainly hopes so. Trumpf's continued strong sales growth is in large part the fruits of a geographical diversification: it established a subsidiary in the U.S. as long ago as 1969 and opened an office in Japan eight years later. It's currently investing in facilities in the Czech Republic, Mexico and South Korea. "Our main competition used to be in the U.S., but it has disappeared there, and now it's Japan," Leibinger-Kammller says...