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Kozlowski landed at Tyco in 1976, hired by legendary hostile-takeover-artist Joseph Gaziano to fix some floundering acquisitions. At the time, Tyco Laboratories was a small manufacturer of everything from undersea cables to fire sprinklers. (It is unrelated to Mattel's Tyco line of toys.) But when Kozlowski took over in 1992, he re-created Tyco in his spirited image...
...What the East India Company did was to become a global narcotics cartel. To get the silver that paid for the Chinese caffeine fix, the company turned to dealing a far more sinister drug?opium. Company ships never brought opium into China, but its rich Bengal plantations fed the demand. Millions of Chinese would ultimately die as a result of addiction, and the trade set the stage for the Opium Wars in which China lost Hong Kong. This nasty bit of history is recounted near the very end of "Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia," a tantalizing...
Smith, who has become something of a service icon on campus, says he views community service as a quick fix, but advocacy as a step toward a more long-term solution to society’s problems...
...solution that we came up with, the solution that the president then came up with, was an odd one, but one that worked,” Verba says. “I think if something isn’t broken, you don’t fix...
...House intelligence chair Porter Goss, both of Florida, is meant to provide lawmakers with a better roadmap of the American intelligence community. And while investigators want to know what's well paved, they're more interested in identifying the potholes and dead ends - and figuring out how to fix them before intelligence lapses lead to another terrorist attack...