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...started dyeing my hair in my mid-30s. When I turned 50, I decided that since I'd been a grandma from age 39, it was time I looked like one. Coloring your hair is a pain in the arse, as the Irish say. Your roots grow out in a week or two, and you have to touch them up or look like a skunk. Surely women have become liberated enough to do what they want. But if they decide to fake it, they should use a lighter dye to make it look more natural. Lisa Singer-Hamilton, Cincinnati, Ohio...
...billion of their money (about 12.5% of the bank's total savings deposits) and helped sink Northern Rock's stock by 56%. As worries spread across the sector, other banks' shares dropped by as much as a third. And every day, the lines outside the branches seemed to grow rather than shrink...
...Corporate America has learned its own version of that lesson. When General Motors first offered health-care benefits for its retirees in the 1960s--a perk matched by many other companies across a booming industrial landscape--it couldn't have known that 40 years later, health-care costs would grow three times faster than inflation, that its retirees would one day outnumber current employees by more than 3 to 1 or that the cost of that promise would grow to more than $50 billion, a liability that threatens to undo the company altogether...
...company like Goldman has access to plenty of talent, but shaping a team in a hot market with a lousy infrastructure required a new strategy. As more foreign banks move in and local institutions grow, salaries in India's financial-services sector, like those in the even hotter technology sector, are skyrocketing, and turnover in many firms tops 35%. Goldman "took a different approach to hiring than most multinationals," says Luis Moniz, a Mumbai-based analyst for the human-resources consultancy Heidrick & Struggles. Most rivals tried a balanced approach, with half local hires for on-the-ground expertise and half...
...started dyeing my hair in my mid-30s. When I turned 50, I decided that since I'd been a grandma from age 39, it was time I looked like one. Coloring your hair is a pain in the arse, as the Irish say. Your roots grow out in a week or two, and you have to touch them up or look like a skunk. Surely women have become liberated enough to do what they want. But if they decide to fake it, they should use a lighter dye to make it look more natural. Lisa Singer-Hamilton, CINCINNATI, OHIO...