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...first quarter on sales of $7.4 billion. It managed to do so with fewer employees than Ericsson, by concentrating on the healthiest end of the business. Ericsson gets 80% of its revenue from mobile-telephone networks, which connect one phone to another - and the market for its telecom gear has been dead for two years. But Nokia focuses on mobile handsets, which fly off the shelves at a rate of 500,000 a day. The Nokia-Ericsson rivalry has an added intensity; it's hard to overstate the national importance of Ericsson. Founded in 1876, it was for many years...
...elegantly proportioned halls that once stored spices now display antique ships from all over the archipelago, such as a sleek kora kora war boat from the Maluku Islands, and finely detailed models of modern freighters. In the market around the museum, visiting sailors stock up on rope, rain gear and pirated VCDs...
Minutes later, squads of Marines are pushing across the bridge. They pour into the streets on the other side, but the expected resistance never comes. Along the riverbank are bunkers, empty save for abandoned gear and piles of Iraqi army boots, shed, presumably, so the retreating soldiers can don civilian clothes and continue the fight if they choose...
...Abercrombie experience kicks into high gear as one enters the headquarters, passing by a squad of male models who sit behind desks reading magazines in order to present entrants with the face of Abercrombie—attractive, buff, 18 to 22, and extremely white. The company seeks to uphold the Abercrombie ideal not only among its receptionists but throughout the ranks of its management as well. Out of the 50 people recruited for jobs as merchandisers last month (mostly from Ivy League schools), there were only three potential minority employees, according to Skey, a ratio he says...
...Harvard coach Harry Parker]’s been working us hard all year,” Skey said. “We’ve got the fitness to go the full 2000 meters and then some. We’ve got another gear for the end of the race...