Word: dammed
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...world's largest banks, and ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group); both are planning to open 10 new branches each within three years so they can expand services such as credit cards, home mortgages and personal loans. "Definitely, the growth will be high," says Thuy Dam, ANZ's general manager for Vietnam...
...typical developing-market entry strategy for multinational institutions, which are keen to share their superior technology and know-how in evaluating lending risks in exchange for local knowledge and existing national networks. ANZ is working on a joint venture with Sacombank to offer credit cards, according to Dam, ANZ's Vietnam general manager. "To access that big market, I think it's wiser to work with a local partner," she says. "Why try to do it yourself...
...will be permanently targeted," he says before he paints a grim-yet-goofy picture of a possible terrorist attack on Czech soil: "A dam blows up and Saint Wenceslas [represented by his statue in Prague] will get his feet...
...People were happy, more people were learning trades, schools were opening all over the place, we were feeling fine." In 1961, he and Theresa had Suzzy, the first of four girls. Kwame began spending long periods away from home, working on houses for those displaced by the massive Volta dam hydroelectric project, another of Nkrumah's grand schemes. "Life was still difficult," he remembers. "But you were working and getting some money...
...romantic comedy, something has to (temporarily) dam up or divert the course of true love. The trouble is that by this time, most of the easily persuasive bars to happiness - class, marital status, and inattention bordering on sheet nuttiness - are either inoperable or used up. So give a certain credit to screenwriters Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson for coming up with a fresh new distraction: the meddling...