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...ally." She is widely believed to have benefited in the 2004 presidential election from votes controlled by the Ampatuans, leaving a hefty political debt. Indeed, her main rival Fernando Poe Jr., a hugely popular movie star, reportedly failed to get a single vote in three Maguindanao towns. "At the core of this horrid incident is a flawed election system that depends heavily on local political clans and warlord families to deliver votes on election day," says Pete Troilo, security analyst at risk consultants Pacific Strategies & Assessments...
...main points of the book is to show how private equity and leveraged buyouts don't work, and even if the credit crisis I'm predicting doesn't happen - even if the economy recovers and some of the companies can refinance and push their debt off - the core practice is still destructive. Many of these companies will fall apart anyway. In the 1980s, when Michael Milken was funding buyouts, 52% of the biggest 25 companies acquired ended up going bankrupt. I did a study of the 1990s, ideal economic times, and with 6 of the 10 biggest buyouts, the companies...
...many minority Christian students, religious organizations that provide a core of shared cultural values imbue their members with a level of comfort that allows them to explore their faiths...
...joked that she was worried that her research would never end until her friend, who was editing a chapter of the book entitled “Beautiful Machines,” helped her focus in on the core of the story she was telling...
There might, though, be a way to restore or even enhance the 30,000-ft. view. Personal-finance-management tools, like those found at Mint.com and Wesabe.com are starting to gain traction among consumers (and not just the hard-core ones who have long relied on Quicken to interpret their finances). These programs pull together online statements and, with features like pie charts, show how much of our money goes to groceries, how much...