Word: corpe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brink looks like. Five years ago, taking a Sunday stroll from his home near the World Trade Center meant jostling among the tourists. Today, he says, he bumps into neighbors. "There are many more residents now and a sense of community," says Pryor, president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. "We even have a new coffee shop...
...convicted, Chung could face jail time, but Korean tycoons have a history of survival. After going to prison for seven months for fraud in 2003, Chey Tae Won, chairman of oil company SK Corp., returned to his post, fighting off shareholder efforts to remove him. Still, Hahm Sung Deuk, a political economist at Korea University, says the arrest of such a prominent executive will act as a powerful warning to other businessmen: "The owners of companies will realize that this time is different." That may be bad news for Chung, but not for Korea's reputation...
...moving will be done by Fox Relocation Management Corp...
...interact. "There's been lots of saber rattling," says Krikorian. "But when you completely dive into this, you realize we're helping the industry.'' If nothing else, Sling has media titans in its corner. Its financial backers include moguls John Malone and Charlie Ergen, who respectively run Liberty Media Corp., the Colorado-based international media and cable company with cable operations around Europe, and Echostar, the second largest satellite-television provider in the U.S. Along with Goldman Sachs, they led a $46.6 million Sling investment in January. Doubtless, competition will come. Sony is marketing a box it calls LocationFree. Other...
...their innate resistance to treatment carries a message for the rest of us as well. It requires almost a stroke of luck to enter a U.S. hospital and receive precisely the right treatment--no more, and no less. A landmark Rand Corp. study published in 2003 found that adults in the U.S. received, on average, just 54.9% of recommended care for their conditions. Average blood sugar was not measured regularly for 24% of diabetes patients. More than half of all people with hypertension did not have their blood pressure under control; one third of asthma patients eligible to get inhaled...