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...international human rights, get an airing in Europe before they do in the U.S. Amadi observes that most European companies have a broader view of who their stakeholders are; American ones often concentrate solely on their stockholders. Secrett fingers Monsanto, once a world leader in biotechnology, as a classic example of a company that thought it could adopt American tactics and "resist and fight" those Europeans who opposed genetically modified crops. (It lost...
Declining faith in the dollar also helps to explain the surge in prices of a host of commodities - a classic hedge against currency instability. This includes the spike in oil, which has been further boosted by soaring demand, political turmoil in the Middle East and rampant speculation by trend-following investors. "Four times in the last 40 years we've had major disruptions in global oil supplies coming from geopolitical events in the Middle East," says Lewis Alexander, chief economist at Citi. "If you were to see one of those scenarios play out, that would be a big additional shock...
...Boom-bap: The signature hard bass and snapping snare sound of classic New York hip-hop. “Boom boom bap / boom boom-boom...
...trains or buses, traveling with a few friends and flask to the game is always a classic...
STANFORD, Calif.—New head coach Tommy Amaker began his stewardship of the Harvard men’s basketball team this weekend at the three-day Basketball Travelers Classic at Maples Pavilion on the Stanford campus. The Crimson (1-2) kicked off its season with a mismatch against the 23rd-ranked host Cardinal on Friday night and suffered a 55-point loss, its worst in 18 years. A strong mid-major team, UC Santa Barbara, surged past Harvard in the second half on Saturday, but the Crimson rallied to blow out Northwestern State on Sunday for its first...