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...this town, just gutted walls and moldy phantoms. In a doorless closet hang some shirts, and a small plasma TV babbles happily in the converted garage. Fountain is fixing up the place nice, or at least trying to. He walks back outside to his band and points to the golden trumpet. But he has forgotten something inside.“Wait. Hold on,” Fountain says. He ducks back into his garage and and emerges wearing a huge sombrero and clutching a 1.75-liter bottle of Crown Royal Whiskey. As he pours it into a glass with...
...years. In Japan, corporate profits have climbed for four straight years (the longest sustained increase since the 1970s) and consumer spending is rising briskly on the back of declining unemployment. Yuji Shimanaka, chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting in Tokyo, says Japan is now in "a golden cycle." So, for now, is much of the world. "It comes down to very simple macroeconomics," says Subir Gokam, an economist at CRISIL, India's largest credit-rating firm. "The global economy is growing without much inflationary pressure...
...employees behave likewise with one another. The result is reduced morale, high turnover, low productivity and, sometimes, threatening or violent behavior. After all, if employees feel they have lost their dignity, they may also feel they have nothing left to lose. If only managers could lead by the Golden Rule, the workplace would be a much better and safer place to be. Richard Sem President, Sem Security Management Trevor, Wisconsin...
...chain or two to ease financial strain, Cambridge’s zoning laws do not allow it. However, as evidenced by the chains a T stop away, it seems that it is the fear of HSDF’s retribution and not the problems of petitioning that keeps the golden arches away...
Shelbyville leaders hope to change the prevailing mentality. At a cavernous high school gym in nearby Columbus, I watched the boys' basketball sectional semifinal with Shelbyville mayor Scott Furgeson. The Shelbyville Golden Bears' 21-0 regular season record had turned the town's usual Hoosier hysteria into Hoosier histrionics. As his constituents cheered on the good kids--the lithe, clean-cut basketball players who were dominating Columbus North High School--Furgeson paused to think about the other kids. Before becoming mayor, he spent 22 years managing the local Pizza King franchise. Every year he had to hire...