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...credit, Pressler did rid the company of most of the $3.2 billion debt he had inherited by tightening inventory, closing underperforming stores and managing the supply chain more efficiently. And while Gap's stock still lags its competitors', the company's shares rose 66% on Pressler's watch. "Under his leadership, the company has meaningfully improved its operations, strengthened its balance sheet, greatly enhanced its online presence and improved our standing as a global corporate citizen," Robert Fisher, son of Gap's founders, told TIME in an e-mail...
...America's epidemic of high school dropouts, which examined the lives of those who had left school or were on the cusp of leaving in Shelbyville, Ind. When I first met Shawn, 18, most of his friends had already dropped out, and he himself was so far behind on credits that he had to shuttle between regular classes and a credit recovery program that felt a bit like detention. Not only was he was unable to graduate with his class, but he was also likely looking at a full fifth year in order to graduate...
...action. "The attention has allowed us to try things that we wouldn't have tried before," he says. Indeed, Shawn's turnaround is due in part to aggressive new strategies that Shelbyville schools are using to keep kids like Shawn on the right path. They've brought their credit recovery program into the digital era, adopting NovaNET, an online software program that Shawn was able to run through at his own pace and on his own schedule. The high school also opened a separate Student Achievement Center, located at a local college, for kids who have fallen behind and would...
...little room at the table for windmills and solar panels, well, that can't hurt too much. Plus, Bush also called for doubling the size of the nation's strategic energy reserve, boosting oil demand by putting the government in line for a massive fill-up on the federal credit card...
...David Cameron: Yes. He's a politician whose approach I just find very stuck in the past. It's all about top-down big government solutions, and if you look at the tax credit system, the NHS computer, the national ID card scheme, this belief in big government solutions solving the problems of the world. I just take a totally different view. Compared with Labour's state control, what we need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some...