Word: foundered
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...Mittal first bid for French steel maker Arcelor last year, the company's French CEO said he was horrified by the idea of an Indian taking over, likening Mittal Steel to eau de Cologne and Arcelor to perfume. Within months, Mittal had won out. A century earlier, when Tata founder Jamsetji Tata suggested making steel for the colonial railway system, a British administrator dismissed the idea with barely concealed contempt. Earlier this year, Tata paid almost $14 billion to buy Corus, British Steel's successor. The moral of that story is not lost on India's corporate captains. They...
...Grotius wrote his 'Freedom of the Seas' treatise [in 1609] we have had freedom to fish on the high seas, without constraints, but clearly for deep-sea bottom trawling this can't continue. And I am reasonably optimistic it can be stopped," says Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Coalition co-founder, who became a conservation advocate 20 years ago, after a decade of trawl fishing off U.S. coasts. "If there is going to be a turning point I think the concerns and the process of negotiation that played out at the General Assembly will prove to be that point...
...Founder of Playboy magazine and enterprises; a reality-show co-star on The Girls Next Door...
...Gopalakrishnan, one of the founders and the current CEO, says Infosys built that culture from the ground up. "We said, If we're going to make it a success, there have to be some rules, some common values, some structure to the whole thing." That included a strict ban on nepotism and a compulsory retirement age of 60. Founding CEO N.R. Narayana Murthy, who still flies coach despite a net worth estimated at $1 billion, says the break with the past was deliberate: "We had to aspire to global standards, especially if we wanted to attract investors from abroad." When...
...turban - considered the very core of a Sikh man's cultural and religious identity - community leaders have hailed Singh's win as, literally, a godsend. Sikh blogs have been pointing out that Singh was declared a winner on Guru Nanak Jayanti, the anniversary of the birth of the founder of Sikhism. And he has been honored by the Akal Takht, the highest seat of the Sikh clergy...