Word: chasings
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...Trojans and the Greek Mycenaeans. It follows prince Hector’s futile attempts to peacefully end the war. “You’re meant to know the ending before the play, or I wouldn’t tell you,” says director Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08. “The title is meant to be ironic, because everyone knows the Trojan War did take place.” The play, however, won’t just cover the epic event as it happened. “We’ve pulled...
...subway; there, it means you’ve stolen some treasure. Witness two secret agent types stake out a palace gate as Nicholas Cage and his family emerge with a piece of wood. Cage makes eye contact with the agents. They make eye contact with him. And the chase is on. That’s where we discover that people in England mostly drive backwards, another interesting cultural difference. But by far the best moment of international insight that “National Treasure” offers comes as the Cage crew rush to their...
...capital are courting investments from oil-and-gas-rich states such as Abu Dhabi and Russia, as well as from rising economies like China, which recently formed a $200 billion SWF to help the government invest its burgeoning foreign-exchange reserves. SWFs, says a senior banker at JP Morgan Chase, "are the new 'it' girl of global finance. Everyone wants a piece of them...
...globalization that we intuitively know - call centers in India, toy factories in China - is just one piece of an increasingly competitive landscape. As manual work becomes more automated and trade barriers fall, companies chase knowledge workers and efficiency just as much as they do cheap labor and access to new markets. In this new calculus, it is often surprising who comes out ahead. According to the Business Competitive Index, the Global Competitive Index's sibling measure developed by Harvard economist Michael Porter, the countries with the lowest wages relative to competitiveness - that is, the best values as investment locations...
...economy, a big part of that everything is being able to produce a desirable workforce. "If we're hearing a mantra today, it's workforce - finding the qualified people," says Rob DeRocker, executive vice president of Development Counsellors International, a firm that helps regions position themselves. The global chase for talent is just as true for manufacturing workers - you have to find skilled labor if all your machines are computer-controlled - as it is for PhD scientists...