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...says. He wasn't afraid to be underground, either. One of his first engineering jobs was in Peabody's famous Mine No. 10, a massive seam running beneath Illinois. Today, old enough to have a teenage son of his own, he still mines coal, but for a different boss. He is spearheading the largest expansion of coal-fired electric plants in Texas history for energy giant TXU. "With 6 million people pouring into Texas over the next decade, this state needs about two of these big power plants a year just to keep up with demand," reckons McCall...
Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China's Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in the city's booming real estate-was widely seen as a political move by President Hu Jintao to consolidate power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny...
...Billy Costigan (DiCaprio), a member of the Massachusetts State Police - evidently state troopers do more than set speed traps - who reports to Capt. Queenan (Martin Sheen) and Sgt. Dignam (Mark Wahlberg), the only two people who know his true identity. The mob cop is Colin Sullivan (Damon), and his boss is gangland kingpin Frank Costello (Nicholson...
Today the top 20 radio groups own at least 3,000 stations out of 11,000 outlets. In came economies of scale, calcified playlists, ROI and Dr. Laura, and out went boss jocks and news on the half-hour. Corporate stations generated some $18 billion in revenue last year, vs. the independents' $394 million, reports BIA Financial Network Inc. Along the way, though, Big Radio lost a good chunk of bored 18-to-24-year-olds, many of whom have defected to their iPods or the indies. Satellite radio is another threat, but declines...
...Success program, she uncovers competing goals that she believes are the root of most people's slowdowns. She helps clients bring them to the surface and resolve them. A typical case might be a midlevel manager who falls behind because he can't delegate. He makes his boss look bad and frustrates the people under him by micromanaging them. "If you procrastinate," Kassel declares, "people don't trust your leadership...