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...decided to throw a dinner for the drivers. "We handed out little cards with an invitation to all the drivers' motor homes," says Batali. "And they came. It wasn't like we checked with NASCAR." But when it came time to put together a partnership deal, it didn't hurt that Batali already knew Brian France, NASCAR's CEO. A couple of years earlier, France had paid Batali to cook his wife's birthday dinner on the couple's boat in Key West, Fla. (Batali does six or seven such private meals a year. He won't say precisely what...
...fishermen, most of whom use small wooden boats from which to net their catch. West Africa is the only place in the world where fish consumption is falling. Legal and illegal fishermen are taking such huge amounts of fish that local fishermen are catching less. That doesn't just hurt Africa's fish stocks, it also fuels the trade in other wild animals. A 2004 study in Science magazine found that when the supply of fish in Ghana falls, consumption of bushmeat caught in Ghana's forests goes...
...using standard business practices employed by other companies, says Houston attorney and former federal prosecutor Michael Wynne. Most likely, he says, the two executives will argue that they were just trying to save the company and that if Enron had survived, what investors hadn't known wouldn't have hurt them. "That, perhaps, is an explanation, but it's not an excuse-and it's not a license to lie," Wynne says...
...club fails, you'll get your money back. Make sure you understand the reservations policy as well so you know how far in advance you'll need to book to get the property you want, he says. Discuss liability issues such as what would happen if a guest got hurt while staying with...
...food," says a Bush Administration official. "I don't have a clue as to what they are, but fine minds are working on trying to sort out what could get support." Still, Washington's allies know that it's tough to design economic restrictions that will hurt the regime without hurting the Iranian people and realize how effectively Iran's leaders could use blunderbuss penalties to unify the nation behind them...