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...Obama turned McCain's attacks back on him. The way out of this ditch, Obama argued, is by rewarding drive and innovation - and by making sure that businesses look out for workers and play by the rules. "That's how we've always grown the American economy - from the bottom up," Obama said. "John McCain calls this socialism. I call it opportunity, and there is nothing more American than that." And the crowd raised the steel roof of the Mellon Arena...
...You’re going to get some defensive penalties that happen through aggressiveness, but we had a couple ones that were relatively undisciplined,” Murphy said. “It took us a while to really get in sync defensively, obviously, and the bottom line is we did, but it was a process.” —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...Marc Touati, an economist and executive manager of Paris research and strategy group Global Equities, says that the "markets are pushing things in the search of a bottom - a point of impact from which rebound and recovery begins." "In one sense, it can be considered a catharsis," agrees Daley. "I just hope the panic doesn't cause irreparable damage to some firms and countries...
...appear to be eight years into another of those long, secular bear markets like the one from 1965 to 1982, or 1929 to 1949. If you're looking for a bottom, an end to the pain, you're very likely to be disappointed. "Bear markets behave rather like Lucy in the Peanuts cartoon strip," Phil Coggan writes in this week's Economist. "Just when Charlie Brown is persuaded to attempt to kick the football, she snatches it away...
Guys who don't keep their word finish last, says the author, a professor of management at Cornell. Besides being the right thing to do, keeping your promises and living up to the values you espouse are good for the bottom line, he argues. Why? Because deeper employee commitment leads to lower turnover and superior customer service. To test his thesis, Simons studied 76 Holiday Inn franchises and interviewed some 100 successful executives in various fields. Says the author: "The credibility of leaders makes or breaks companies...