Word: honing
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Case in point: Shanda Interactive Entertainment, China's largest online game provider. Huang's fund injected $40 million into the business and helped its young, Chinese-educated chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...
Ruggiero will further hone her skills by practicing and playing up north until August, the start of the U.S. Olympic training that will then become her main focus...
Murphy, who has been forced to hone his recruiting skills as a result of the Ivy League’s high admissions standards and ban on athletic scholarships, has a history of resuscitating lackluster programs. Prior to overseeing the Crimson’s late-’90s resurgence, he transformed Cincinnati from a 1-9-1 laughingstock into an 8-3 bowl contender four years later...
...Hone your sense of style, see the inside of the Faculty Club, and help out a worthy cause while you’re at it. Women IN Color presents a fashion show highlighting Harvard styles. All proceeds go straight to the non-profit Dress for Success, which helps underprivileged women aquire job interviewing skills. General admission tickets $10 at the Harvard Box Office. 7 p.m. at the Faculty Club. (ECMV...
...times people go to nonprofit work to hone their interests,” explains Garcia. “Then they go back to grad school or law school to try to change the system on that level...