Word: developable
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...early 1990s, and business school, he worked at Bank of America and British Gas before heading to Mexico for a change of scenery. On a whim, he e-mailed his former college friend Dikshit, who, it turned out, had just set up a software company and was trying to develop a gaming start-up for Parasol, a lawyer by training. Parasol's history has filled the pages of British tabloid newspapers this year largely because of her involvement in online pornography and her investment in a company that made adult videos--activities that, ironically, have fewer legal encumbrances than gambling...
Repair and cleanup are linked, to some degree, with planning what New Orleans should look like five years from now. The Louisiana Recovery Authority, appointed by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, met in November with hundreds of New Orleans residents to develop priorities, brainstorm ideas with planners and businessmen, and present a unified voice. The Authority vice chair Walter Isaacson petitioned Congress last week for help in establishing a "recovery corporation" as a vehicle for the city's rebuilding neighborhoods. Donald Powell, the new hurricane czar appointed by George W. Bush, said his job is to listen and gather facts...
...business, a key post as the company competes with IBM and Accenture for higher-value consulting work. With margins shrinking in IT outsourcing, this shift is critical. Singh must convince clients, 60% of them in North America, that Wipro is up to the task. "They've trusted us to develop and build [software], the not-so-sexy business, but they've turned to the Big Three for consulting," she says. To move into that area, Singh will have to nurture Wipro's talent. With turnover high and the industry still young, Indian IT companies are struggling to develop top-level...
...caps, rising sea levels and perhaps even more intense hurricanes devastating our coasts. Most climate scientists believe the warming is directly related to rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide that have resulted from burning fossil fuels like petroleum. Instead of increasing our addiction to damaging fossil fuels, we should develop the political will to reduce our use. Alan F. Arbogast Department of Geography Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan...
...best oralist to Joshua Hurwit of the petitioners’ team. During the arguments, Justice Souter questioned whether the curfew violated any constitutional rights and defended the right of the State to consider age in its legislation. “You agreed that we shouldn’t develop a framework in which a five-year-old has the same rights as a 19-year-old or a 69-year-old,” Souter said in response to Callahan. “What is wrong with the cutoff of 18-year-olds?” Judge Rovner was also...