Word: developable
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...going to be someone else coming in,” Thomas explained. “It’s just knowing what other guys responsibilities are on the field as well as my own, then being able to read the offense, step back and see everything develop in front of me and not have tunnel vision...
Defining moment: After a stint peddling L'Oreal hair color to supermarkets in France, Chiquet spent 15 years at Gap Inc. She helped develop the Old Navy division before being named president of Banana Republic. But she has had zero experience in luxury goods...
...1970s, South Korea ran a program to develop technology to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. By 1976, it was in the final stages of buying a reprocessing plant from France when the U.S. pressured Seoul to end the program. Washington suspected Korea wouldn't merely reprocess the fuel for power generation, but was planning to use the technology to make plutonium for atomic weapons. For Kim Chul, the nuclear expert who headed the project, the reprocessing dream never died. Kim keeps the only known copy of the project blueprints on a shelf in his study. "We should own that technology," says...
...Japan's status quo isn't what it used to be. Three of the country's largest banks are engaged in an unusual corporate-takeover battle that could develop into something unheard of in the country's clubby and consensus-driven banking community: a hostile takeover bid. The combatants are Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Japan's second- and third-largest banks, respectively. They are vying to merge with UFJ Holdings, the sickest and smallest of the country's Big Four banks, in a bidding war that highlights the degree to which government reform...
...whites to deal with slavery," says former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, who conceived the National Slavery Museum, scheduled to open in 2007. "People don't want to discuss it. 'Let's get past it,' they say. Well, I say that attitude is insulting to our history. We need to develop a conscious awareness of how far we've come...