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Minoru Mori, Tokyo's most powerful property tycoon and a leading member of Japan's most prominent real estate--development family, fancies himself to be something of a philosopher-builder. Sitting in a leather armchair behind a gigantic marble conference table at his company headquarters, the 69-year-old president and CEO of Mori Building grandiloquently expounds upon his vision: Buildings are not just business ventures or structures where people live and work but also opportunities for social betterment. His goal, he says, is to revolutionize the way his countrymen live by creating high-rise, inner-city communities that...
...packed it in after Cornell,” said senior goalie Jake McKenna, who played another solid game between the pipes, finishing with six saves. “But everyone dug deep and stepped up to help us out. This was a huge win in terms of a momentum builder...
...think it’s going to be a great confidence builder,” Sproul said...
...were against the kind of unilateral war Bush wanted to wage, and our suspicion that Bush would prove disastrous as a nation builder has largely been confirmed. In the year that has passed, we have learned a great deal about America’s faulty intelligence regarding supposed weapons of mass destruction, corruption and cronyism in Iraq’s rebuilding contracts and the extent of the Pentagon’s miscalculations in its reconstruction plans. The world has good reason...
...stock options. When WorldCom's growth machine began to sputter so did its stock price, denting Ebbers' net wealth. Yet he tapped WorldCom's cash reserves for hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to buy even more stock plus a huge ranch in British Columbia, a Georgia yacht builder and a minor league hockey team. (He still owns a golf club and a lumber business in Mississippi.) To keep WorldCom afloat, prosecutors charge, Ebbers allegedly resorted to a combination of hype, hidden expenses and phantom revenue to inflate earnings by all those billions and perpetuate the illusion that WorldCom...