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...rate of control and destruction of nuclear weapons around the world has dangerously fallen since the attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) study released on Monday...
...time." Others noted that there was less outcry when Saddam was doing the torturing, or argued that "they would do the same to us" if they had a chance. When we are reduced to insisting that our depravity isn't as bad as the other guy's, we have fallen deep into a pit of moral equivalence that reveals what we have lost...
...brash, swashbuckling style of fallen supermen like Messier--who referred to himself as a "master of the world" and published two autobiographies, one while he was CEO and a sequel after he was ousted--has been consigned to history, for now. "The extreme case of 'the company, c'est moi' is behind us," says Booz Allen's Newkirk. At engineering giant ABB, based in Zurich, Jurgen Dormann stunned senior managers by telling them in one of his first meetings after taking office in September 2002, "I don't like to work too hard or take decisions. You do that...
Nothing on corporate balance sheets so symbolizes the excesses of the 1990s as the towering debt left behind by fallen CEOs who couldn't control their acquisitive urges. Accordingly, their successors are deleveraging. The prize for the biggest reduction goes to Thierry Breton, a sometime science-fiction novelist who moved from Thomson to take over France Telecom in September 2002. He is paring the France Telecom work force by about 22,000, or 15%, mainly through attrition, and he has linked the pay of thousands of managers to tough performance targets. Debt tumbled from $66.7 billion to $51 billion...
Apartment fundamentals should improve next year. As mortgage rates have fallen to four-decade lows, more folks have told the landlord to shove it and bought a house. Home ownership is at a record 69%. That trend, along with a weak economy that forced others to double up or move back home with Mom, drove the apartment vacancy rate to 7.1% last quarter, a 16-year high, reports REIS Inc., a real estate research firm. In many markets, rents have been declining...