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...Ford execs are just protecting investors, whose interests they are legally required to represent. No CEO wants to stand up at a shareholders' meeting and announce that going green hurt profits. "Guys in my job can't have hobbies," Immelt says, explaining that he's not greening GE to earn plaudits from environmentalists, eco-minded consumers or even young GE employees, who liked the idea according to internal focus groups. "You can't do things because you had a vision while you were in bed one night and someone whispered in your ear 'Go green...
...nation's other outsourcing edge is more basic: it has a large population of English speakers who will work for relatively meager salaries. A top agent in Manila might be paid $2.65 an hour, perhaps a quarter of what someone in a call center in the U.S. might earn. As a result, it can be a highly profitable business...
Among the first of history's judges were the Filipinos who filed through the palace last week, many of whom earn less in a year than Imelda spent on a single pair of shoes. "I am appalled by the greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style of the rich and famous. "In the palace, I saw all the seven capital sins." Even visitors accustomed to more affluent surroundings were stunned. "Next to Imelda," said Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York after visiting Malacañang, "Marie Antoinette was a bag lady...
Born Nov. 9, 1934, in the provincial town of Boras in southwest Sweden, Carlsson grew up in modest circumstances. The son of a seamstress and coffee-factory worker, he graduated from a commercial high school and went on to earn a degree in political science at the University of Lund in 1958. With Palme, Carlsson became a political protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, the architect of the Swedish welfare state. His first major post was as Minister of Education in the government formed by Prime Minister Palme in 1969. Carlsson served Palme until his death, acting...
...culture hero. Bascombe has given up on that idea, although he retains some of the baggage: he has an abandoned novel titled Tangier, an ex-wife whom he calls X, and Vicki, a good ole girl from Texas who is a nurse and an effective pain killer. To earn a living, he covers ball games and interviews athletes for a weekly sports magazine. It is an honorable job and adequate compensation for his lost promise. Best of all, facts, deadlines and airline food suppress higher thoughts. Writing about victories and defeats, comers and has-beens teaches him an austere lesson...