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From the very day we met her she became an incredibly loyal and generous friend. Always smiling and full of enthusiasm, Petra was one of the warmest and most charismatic people at the symposium and her uncompromising fight for human rights and ecology was conveyed in a firm and noble manner...
While charming and generous with his friends, he is another man altogether at the foundation. Several of the foundation's directors have left in a fury over his autocratic ways; a group of friends and business associates controls most decisions. Membership is expensive: directors pay $10,000 a year for the privilege, trustees pay $5,000, and 54,000 others tithe regularly like churchgoers. "Only directors can vote, trustees can talk and members can applaud," complains Frank Calzon, the foundation's first executive director...
...nose-dives into the T-stop. Once there it rushes past the hordes of outdated punks on the escalator, skillfully nutting one or two with its crusty end, and just manages to get on the tram going downtown (disguised all the while as a proper baguette). At your generous and unwitting expense, your ex-lunch is probably, at this very moment, holidaying in the Bahamas and sipping on fruity cocktails. Meanwhile, back in that social epicentre and fair of wit and beauty so seductively titled in French, your coffee is cold. It stares up at you with glum foreboding, challenging...
Tips are not uncommon in the hotel business. But few are as generous as the one Marriott shareholders received last week. In a financial maneuver that is part of a growing trend, Marriott Corp. said it would spin off its thriving hotel-management division from its debt-laden real estate operations and would award stockholders special tax-free shares in the new company. A number of firms, most recently Sears, that had caught diversification fever during the 1980s are now scrambling to sell ill-fitting or troublesome units...
...help families cope with ever more intricate obligations, the government should allow large, extended families to incorporate themselves as businesses, suggests David Pearce Snyder, a consulting futurist. This would make families more productive and independent by giving them huge tax advantages that corporations enjoy: generous write-offs for helping each other with new business ventures, tuition funds and the ability to transfer wealth among members without being taxed. Such families would then be much better equipped to look after all their members, relieving the government and other institutions of that burden...