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...arbitrary. But that hasn't kept a growing number of companies from joining such firms as Enron, Ford Motor and Microsoft in adopting them. "What it all boils down to is who is in the room fighting for you," says an Enron worker who was cut from the herd. "I didn't have people there to talk for me, and I felt like I got screwed." Counters Craig Taylor, a manager in Enron's commodity-trading department: "You have to know where you stand, and I believe the system does an excellent job of doing that...
...arbitrary. But that hasn't kept a growing number of companies from joining such firms as Enron, Ford Motor and Microsoft in adopting them. "What it all boils down to is who is in the room fighting for you," says an Enron worker who was cut from the herd. "I didn't have people there to talk for me, and I felt like I got screwed." Counters Craig Taylor, a manager in Enron's commodity-trading department: "You have to know where you stand, and I believe the system does an excellent job of doing that...
...BRAZIL Mass Vaccination Faced with two outbreaks of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, the government decided to vaccinate 13 million animals. The disease appeared in cattle in Rio Grande do Sul state, near the border with Uruguay, which is vaccinating its entire herd of 10 million animals following the discovery of 190 cases. Neighboring Argentina, which has found 291 diseased animals, is also conducting a huge vaccination campaign. Beef exports are extremely important to the economy of Brazil, which numbers 160 million animals in its herd...
...good news, however, is far from solid. The turnaround that was once popularly scheduled for fall has now been pushed back to winter. And because of the generally gun-shy, spooked-herd state of U.S. business these days, the turnaround may not get going until the turnaround gets going (you know what we mean...
...acres. The answer is none. It's too small," says Bob Brown, head of A&M's department of wildlife and fisheries sciences. "They want fences 10 feet to 12 feet high to keep wildlife in--or out--but don't understand that isolating a herd causes inbreeding...