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...clear field Vietnam's private banks have enjoyed will disappear with the entry of foreign financial giants, which bring lending expertise and deep pockets that are impossible for their in-country rivals to match. Vietnam's largest private bank, Asia Commercial Bank, has total assets of just $2.8 billion, compared with Agribank's $14.6 billion. To compete, private banks are aggressively raising capital by selling shares to Vietnamese and foreign investors. For example, Ho Chi Minh City-based Eastern Asia Bank has built up a $1.35 billion war chest, according to its CEO, Tran Phuong Binh. The bank plans...
...trauma surgeons of public relations," as Dezenhall puts it--the people whom companies call in when lawsuits, recalls, boycotts, federal investigations or just plain bad luck hits. "These unwanted events are our daily challenges," he writes in Damage Control: Why Everything You Know About Crisis Management Is Wrong. The field traces its recent roots to 1982, when seven people died from taking cyanide-laced Tylenol pills, and the manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, quickly recalled 30 million bottles of Tylenol and introduced tamper-proof packaging. That storied recovery showed corporate America the power of getting it right in a crisis...
...explain that you (and other swimmers) quite often smash world records by half a second, sometimes even one or two seconds, while world records in track and field hold much longer and are beaten by narrow margins? Jeremie Clevy, PARIS...
...watched, dumbfounded, as the ball soared, before the screams of “Run! Run!” from the dugout finally reached my ears. I know that I made the Principal’s List in each term during eighth grade. I remember running down the field at soccer practice on a Tuesday afternoon on a 2-1 fast break alongside my friend Dario. I remember him lifting the ball perfectly to my eye level a foot in front of my face, letting my momentum do the work as my forehead struck the ball into the back...
...structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...