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...traditionally aimed to place students at agencies like the Foreign Service, the Pentagon, and the Treasury Department. But in recent years, that aim has been overtaken by the allure of private sector careers.Clyde I. Howard, a 1991 graduate of KSG’s mid-career program and a consol general in Barbados, details the difficulty in becoming a member of the Foreign Service. To be eligible, applicants must sit for an exam (designed to eliminate 90 percent of applicants), go through an interview process, and attend a series of individual and group exercises. For Howard, this process took close...
...Berg, the head of the Kabbalah center in Los Angeles and one of the driving forces behind the practice's growing popularity. The Malawi care center--which will be a day camp for orphans whose relatives can take them in but struggle to feed them--will be run by Consol Homes, which does not have a religious affiliation. But the center will offer programs based on Spirituality for Kids, Kabbalah's children's program. Malawian teachers are already being trained to use and adapt it. "One of the main precepts of Kabbalah is that we're put on this earth...
...STRONG FUNDAMENTALS As investors look ahead to a recovery, they will favor stocks of familiar companies with solid balance sheets that do well on the rebound. Often such stocks also carry the highest dividend yields. Look at banks (AmSouth, U.S. Bancorp), basic materials (Dow Chemical, Lubrizol), energy (Consol Energy), manufacturers (Dana, Ford), real estate investment trusts (AMB Property, Federal REIT), utilities (Con Edison), and food and tobacco (UST, Philip Morris...
STRONG FUNDAMENTALS As investors look ahead to a recovery, they will favor stocks of familiar companies with solid balance sheets that do well on the rebound. Often such stocks also carry the highest dividend yields. Look at banks (AmSouth, U.S. Bancorp), basic materials (Dow Chemical, Lubrizol), energy (Consol Energy), manufacturers (Dana, Ford), real estate investment trusts (AMB Property, Federal REIT), utilities (Con Edison), and food and tobacco (UST, Philip Morris...
...that was not the last word. Virginia Power had also offered Consol and Mettiki the option of devising any other kind of bid they wanted, and the Maryland mine came through with a 10-year bid that Consol couldn't match. With coal prices still on a downward trend that began 19 years ago, fuel contracts of that length are all but unprecedented. But Mettiki vice president for operations Tom Wynne insists there was nothing nefarious about this. "We invested every inch of our effort for two years into getting this contract," he says. "We did our homework...