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...urge governments to cut pollution by introducing more efficient heating stoves in developing countries and turning to solar power and other clean sources of energy. "We need sustainable growth in every city in this world," says Edwin Lau Che Feng, director of the environmental group Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong. "Richer countries have a responsibility to transfer cleaner technology to developing nations and help them reduce emissions because developing nations are the world's factory today...
...Apple itself was exceedingly healthy. "There is an extraordinary depth and breadth of tenure on the Apple team," he said, describing his company's 30,000 employees as "wicked smart...The values of our company are extremely well entrenched. We believe that we're on the face of the earth to make good products, and that's not changing. We're constantly innovating...
They're the undertakers of the retail business, charged with giving stores a graceful exit from this earth (at 60% off!). And when they tell strangers what they do for a living, it's sometimes hard to do it with great gusto. "'Liquidator' sure has a negative connotation, doesn't it?" admits Paul Erickson, CFO of the Great American Group, one of the largest liquidation firms in the country. The wife of Jim Schaye, CEO of Hudson Capital Partners, another major liquidator, didn't want her husband to broadcast his career when they first met. "She thought people would think...
...incentive for meeting that challenge. Then he retold the most effective speech he ever gave to a team. "When Christopher Columbus left and got on the boat, everyone told him not to go because the world is flat and he's going to fall off the face of the earth," began Cowher. I realized then that there is probably a good deal of history that would be new to professional football players. But Cowher ended the Columbus speech with a great line: "You can't allow history to determine your future. But you can let the future determine your history...
...with a certain amount of forbearance by bank regulators and a lot of cash from Saudi Arabia--enabled Citi to survive. Reed then agreed to a 1998 merger with Travelers Group, which necessitated congressional repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and established Citigroup as the greatest financial supermarket on earth...