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...international takeover artists, the British leave everybody in the dust. Sizing up overseas opportunities is a talent that seems to come naturally to British businessmen, for whom Canada is often closer than Calais. British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an astonishing ratio considering that the equivalents for France and Japan, runners-up in the takeover league, are 1 to 16 and 1 to 79 respectively. A survey of cross-border takeovers by KPMG Peat Marwick accountants last year showed that British companies spent four times as much on foreign takeovers...
...relation between physicians and patients is supposed to be quite different from that of businessmen and customers," Relman said in his speech, entitled, "Professional Ethics and Market Economics in America: Can They Coexist...
...health care is not a business then we must not allow our physicians to be businessmen and our hospitals to be businesses," Relman said...
Criticizing President Derek C. Bok for formulating his divestment policy based on the advice of those who have not been directly affected by the apartheid regime, Woods suggested that the Harvard chief executive would do better to talk to Black South Africans than to "white businessmen...
...most overpowering impression in the Vale these days is the utter alienation of Kashmiri Muslims. Anti-Indian sentiment has spread from the angry young men of the J.K.L.F. and the twelve other rebel organizations to the businessmen and bureaucrats who might be expected to support the status quo. The best recruiter for the rebels is the curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet...