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...firm tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt was that good, solid employees--like whistle-blower Sherron Watkins--were shunted aside in the gold rush. "B players strive for advancement but not at all costs. This attitude is anathema to most A players," DeLong and co-author Vineeta Vijayaraghavan recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review...
...BLACK GOLD Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in the mid-1930s. Today, petroleum accounts for 75% of the kingdom's revenue, 45% of its GDP and 90% of its export earnings...
...This is serious ... we are just investigating if a debt is owed." NABIL HILMI, Egyptian lawyer, on his plan to sue Jews worldwide for "plundering" gold during their Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible...
...GLASS, warned a sign. Zhang signaled for a pitcher and recounted the day he drank here with boxing promoter Don King. "Big hair," he remembered. We tapped our steins and savored a malty freshness that forever spoiled my appreciation of the bike-transported local stuff. Zhang lit a Hongtashan Gold and wanted to talk about Yanjing's business plan, "about strict control over rate of charges on assets," but I had some nagging questions: Favorite Yanjing? ("Draft brand"); Brown bottle or green? ("Doesn't matter"); Pineapple beer?why? ("It's refreshing"); The growing wine market? ("No problem! Wine...
...include any of the training costs (from €14 per session, depending on where). The first lesson: taking a punch. More used to rhetorical jabs than any other kind, the men "screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt, whose two front teeth are gold set with diamonds. "In boxing, you can't flinch." Clearly, boxing appeals to some on a primal level. "I think, in a perverse way, there's a lot of suppressed macho tendencies coming out," says Kevin Mitchell, a sportswriter for the U.K.'s Observer weekly and author of War Baby...