Word: dollarized
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...business returns. "This is team building with meaning," says Ian Railton, Italy-based head of Whirlpool's Ikea account team. The 14 people sweating it out in the Romanian sun certainly share an incentive to work well together. Normally, these designers, project managers, salesmen and marketers manage a multimillion-dollar relationship between Ikea and Whirlpool, the retail chain's exclusive supplier of kitchen appliances. Such strategic partnerships require cohesion, but there is a limit to how much colleagues can bond by e-mail or phone. So now, for three days, they are donning hard hats and tool belts, and building...
...former president. Romney, although providing no evidence, cited Khatami’s role in terrorism and his human rights record as justification for the decision, telling The Boston Globe that “there are people in this state who have suffered from terrorism, and taking even a dollar of their money to support a terrorist is unacceptable.” Apparently the types of terrorism and human rights abuses manifested in Pakistan differ from those in Iran.Then the Harvard College Democrats presented five seemingly reasonable demands, calling for Khatami to admit his alleged role in multiple human rights abuses...
Some believe that the answer is to restore local ownership. Newspapers were born free, and yet everywhere they are in chains, like Gannett. Fueled by noblesse oblige and municipal pride, a wealthy local won't need to squeeze the last dollar out of the business. Just look at the Sulzbergers of the New York Times and the Grahams of the Washington Post. Ah, but there is a difference between folks who get rich owning a newspaper and folks who get rich and then buy a newspaper. As a rule, rich folks don't buy expensive toys for other people...
...fears turned out to be groundless. The one emotion everyone showed was happiness to see me alive, maimed or not. But two exchanges stood out. My sister surprised me with a gift: a 1900 silver dollar our gambler father had won in Las Vegas and given to her in 1956 when she was 8 years...
...irresponsible environmental stewardship is not to revert to Muir’s ideal of preserving pristine wilderness, but to return to the balanced vision of Pinchot. We can take into account the present needs of America’s economy, but we should not irresponsibly prioritize the almighty dollar over all else.Brian J. Rosenberg ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a biology concentrator in Lowell House...