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...business climate is lousy or something has to be done about the company's internal culture or its markets. That leads to frenzied choices." The fruits of longer programs that set specific goals stand a much better chance of sticking with a participant, Boyatzis argues. That doesn't come cheap though. Conversant's course, featuring three weeklong sessions over eight months, costs $15,500 a head, pretty much the industry standard...
...behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs. His captors emptied his pockets and took his cheap wristwatch and his belt and shoes. As the car sped away, one man put a hood over Waddah's head and, using a plastic tie, bound his wrists behind his back. All that happened in a few moments, and Waddah says he could only think, "This is a mistake--they...
...investors make. Famed portfolio manager Bill Miller has dubbed it the "five-year psychological cycle." Investors want to own today what they should have owned five years ago. Currently, investors are pining for energy and commodities, but they should have owned them in the early 2000s, when they were cheap and unloved. Instead, investors coveted the high-flying tech and telecom stocks, which would have been smart purchases in the mid-1990s--except that investors were busy chasing bank stocks, which would have been shrewd purchases in 1990. You get the idea...
...plasma TVs scattered throughout. Use of the hotel's secret entrance will pander to your inner celebrity, as will the private lounge in which your visitors are vetted by security before admission to the sanctum of the suite itself. A night here will set you back $4,500 - not cheap, but for this level of cosseting it's well priced. Tempted? See more at singapore.grand.hyatt.com...
...This banana money makes it possible for the producers to continue to be farmers and not disappear,” Arevalo said through a translator. Rich Bonanno, a local New England farmer, also advocates fair trade as a way to protect small farms from falling agricultural prices due to cheap foreign imports. “The [U.S.] corporations are not the problem...Now my competition is in Canada and Central America,” Bonanno said. While fair trade crops can be more expensive, Bar Am said higher prices may not deter consumers. “You are paying more...