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Highlight Reel:1. On "buffalo jumps," places where hunters would chase buffalo off the side of a cliff and then reap the rewards at the bottom of the fall: "The Blackfoot term for a buffalo jump is pishkun, which translates roughly to 'deep blood kettle' ... Anyone whose sensitivities are disturbed by modern slaughterhouse practices would be utterly repulsed by the mayhem at the foot of a buffalo jump. In the fall, buffalo suffered compound fractures. Splintered femurs were driven far enough into bodies to puncture stomachs and spill contents. Buffalo landed on other buffalo. Their horns and hooves ripped into...
...based executive-recruiting firm, is receiving 50% more unsolicited contacts from those seeking high-end jobs than in previous years, says Jory Marino, who heads the firm's North American office. And in case it's not painfully obvious, says Mickey Matthews, who directs North American operations for Stanton Chase International, a global executive-search firm based in Dallas, "the supply-demand imbalance certainly favors employers...
...supposed to be a surviving bright spot, where international carmakers, beleaguered at home, could still find new sales and profits. But with the market shifted into reverse, the already fierce competition between foreign and Chinese automakers like Chery and Geely will only intensify. Discounting has become widespread as carmakers chase fewer customers with special deals, eating into profit margins. "When growth is slowing down, everyone will be trying to defend market share," says David Jin, managing director of Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai...
...rule change and are already benefiting. Wells Fargo will book an estimated $25 billion tax credit from its November acquisition of Wachovia. PNC, which bought National City in October, could get as much as $5 billion in tax benefits from that merger. And Capital One, which bought Chevy Chase Bank earlier this month, is looking at a $500 million tax windfall. Investment Losses Now Count for More...
...found it strange that representatives of the group supposedly ushering in the United States’ moral decay and loss of traditional values would come together to watch a movie about football, America’s rough and tumble answer to that wimpy game where scrawny European boys chase after each other in short-shorts kicking a ball around...