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...Life Assurance bankrupt after an Indonesian consultant claimed the company owed him money from a terminated contract. The court immediately replaced Prudential managers with a receiver, who fired key staff. By the time Prudential got the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict in June, sales of new policies had fallen 50%. Since then, Prudential has fought off two other attempts to declare the unit bankrupt, including one last week (Sept. 23). Charlie Oropeza, president-director of Prudential's Indonesia operations, calls his situation "wacky." The legal system "is the biggest and most urgent problem for us," he says...
...MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN...
...help Farkes’ prospects in the 2005 June Draft, for which he is now eligible. According to Walsh, at least one scout this spring noticed that Farkes’ velocity across the infield—a measure of an infielder’s arm strength—had fallen almost 10 m.p.h. since high school, from...
...what students demand above all is to get their money’s worth, and these cutbacks have shown no corresponding changes on termbills. Full board this year is $4,286 (which is actually an increase of $124 since last school year); if the cost of feeding students has fallen, students should pay less or get a better product. By our account, HUDS has some explaining...
Smaller boutique hotels, such as El Remanso elremanso.com on the Pacific Coast, have found ways to be environmentally conscious from the ground up. Fallen wood was used to build El Remanso's roomy cabins, so no rare hardwood trees were logged. Each unit is surrounded by a moat of moving water that keeps ants out of the rooms, eliminating the need for pesticides...