Word: foreigners
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...When you see a guy with talent, you give him a difficult assignment." -John Smith, retired GM chairman, on entrusting GM's foreign operations to Henderson. (Businessweek...
...die—none too fast for the next generation of information proprietors. From the once high-flying Tribunes, Posts, and Chronicles to the galactic Suns and Stars, iconic Inquirers, and relatively quotidian Timeses and Newses, newspapers around the country are heavily scaling back, folding, or borrowing from tycoons foreign and domestic...
...campaign is the first by the agency under its new director, Leon Panetta, who has said he would like to recruit more people with foreign-language skills as well as more minorities...
...sheer volume of applications masks some of the agency's recruiting problems. In a roundtable discussion with journalists last month, Panetta noted that less than 13% of his staff have foreign-language skills, and 22% are from minority communities. "I'd like to get to a point where every analyst and operations officer is trained in a foreign language," he said. Panetta also said he'd like to increase the number of minorities at the agency to 30%, "so that we resemble America." And he acknowledged the need for "better outreach for Muslims, Arabs, African Americans and Latinos." (Read...
...bombing raid came after an intelligence tip-off. In early January, at the height of Israel's assault on Gaza, Israel's foreign-intelligence agency, Mossad, was told by an informant that Iran was planning a major delivery of 120 tons of arms and explosives to Gaza, including antitank rockets and Fajir rockets with a 25-mile (40 km) range and a 99-lb. (45 kg) warhead. With little time to plan the operation, naval vessels and helicopters were rushed to the Red Sea in case Israel had to rescue a downed pilot, and the plan was hurried through...