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...yourself with a business card ready; never open a gift right away). Of course, these lessons are by now standard for anyone in the West looking to drum up business prospects in Beijing or Xiamen. But the group in Pesaro are not M.B.A. students or venture capitalists. They are clock-punching engineers, mechanics and secretaries - and they're learning Chinese because that's what the boss speaks...
...good idea at the time: needing to fly back to California from Asia after a business trip, just before flying off to Asia from California on another trip, I would spend as little time as possible on the ground so I wouldn't have to change my body clock. The upshot, however, on the calendar, is that I wake up one Sunday in Bali and find myself on Monday in Sydney. On Tuesday (as it seems to me) I'm in California. On Thursday I'm on my way to Singapore, and on Saturday I'm in Delhi...
...day’s festivities by encouraging the media to use the new Football Championship Subdivision designation. “The term I-AA doesn’t exist anymore,” Yrigoyen said…The NCAA has instituted a few rule changes in 2007. The clock rules will revert back to pre-'06 days, with the clock starting on the touch as opposed to the kickoff, and on the snap when possession changes. In addition, kickoffs will now take place from the 30-yard line instead of the 35, as in the pro game…Senior...
...three surviving auteurs who defined serious European movies in the 60s - when serious movies pretty much were European. Of the decade's transcendent film figures, only that perpetual iconoclast Jean-luc Godard, 76, is left standing. If I were he, I'd insist on round-the-clock medical attention...
...conceived scenes, Damon says, that they knew at the time would never make it into the film. Such as? "It would be like carrying a pile of s___ in here and saying 'Look what we almost stepped in,'" he says. "When you have all this machinery and the clock is ticking and the dollars are just going out the window, most people panic. Paul says, 'All right, we're in a hole right now, and everybody needs to put down the shovel...