Word: fedexing
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...port operations to the emirate would supposedly compromise national security? Because it makes sense. Call it the reality of living in a globally connected business world. Your IBM laptop is now manufactured by a Chinese company that may outsource customer support to an Indian firm and the logistics to FedEx. Dubai companies aren't just buying overseas assets like hotels in New York and wax museums in London; they're providing jobs and business for U.S. companies. Boeing, for one, can only hope it doesn't receive a frosty reception the next time it wants to sell airplanes to Dubai...
...JOURNEYMAN LEADER In nearly 24 years of working at FedEx, Ken May has had 13 assignments. Now that he is starting as CEO of FedEx Kinko's (FedEx bought Kinko's nearly two years ago), May, 45, won't reprint his résumé anytime soon. He plans to build 3,000 FedEx Kinko's stores over the next five years, including 1,000 overseas. Many of the new locations will be just 2,000 sq. ft., a third as big as most current outlets. That will cut costs, and the result, May hopes, will boost morale and profit margins, which...
GLADWELL: We're not talking about the end of those identities. We're talking about the multiplication of identities so that in addition to the strong national identities, you start to construct new ones. FedEx now has direct flights from interior Chinese cities to cities in North America. So start playing that forward. You're allowing a class of people in China to layer on a new identity to their existing identity of Chinese businessmen as member of some kind of international business élite...
...that period. The big fear is that the core rate will lift as companies raise prices to offset the higher prices they pay for energy. "Inevitably, we'll get some pass-through," says James O'Sullivan, economist at the brokerage UBS. Indeed, Clorox, Marriott, Carnival, Deere and FedEx have already raised or said they would raise prices because of the high cost of fuel...
...cocktails and red crocodile bar top. The host of the upcoming event, according to an e-mail obtained by TIME, is a lobbying firm co-founded by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's brother and Senate majority leader Bill Frist's former chief counsel. FedEx has thrown a similar shindig, as has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Attendees get to mingle below the radar at the publicity- free events, which are billed at less than $50 a head to comply with Senate ethics rules. "Why have a lobbyist pay for it?" asks a senior Republican's top staffer...