Word: keenings
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...dragging it down. Citi may be taking on water faster than it can dump it out, but Parsons is no stranger to financial struggle. When he took over AOL Time Warner in 2003, the media conglomerate was $27 billion in debt and the Securities & Exchange Commission had taken a keen interest in America Online's premerger accounting practices - basically, the company was the Wall Street equivalent of the dorky kid whom nobody sat next to at lunch. Parsons had some success at Time Warner - he removed 'AOL' from the company's name and streamlined its business practices...
...What kind of impression did Obama make when you met him in Chicago back in the 1990s? Brilliant among many brilliant people. A rather astonishing brain. Warm. A very, very keen listener. An unusually curious human being. We're lucky, in my opinion...
...Issuing pink slips en masse is a political nonstarter in India, and it's even less likely to happen in an election year. With India's flagship information-technology sector under global scrutiny, the government looks keen to salvage Hyderabad-based Satyam, the country's fourth-largest outsourcing company. "I am pretty sure the employees are on safe terrain," says James Agarwal, head of executive-search firm BTI Consultants India. "There is no chance the government will allow the company to go down. It is important for employees, for Indian corporates, for the government." (See pictures of the global financial...
...someone who was very warm, committed, who was unusually keen and charismatic and an unusually curious human being,” she said...
...other hand, some initiatives have negative tails - spending money now saves it later. That's one reason Obama is so keen on energy efficiency; retrofitting 75% of federal buildings would curb emissions and set a powerful example as well as slash government energy costs for years to come. Obama also wants to invest in computerizing health records, which would cost tens of billions up front but could save hundreds of billions in government health costs. "At some point, we've got to start turning this around," says Democratic Congressman Ron Kind of Wisconsin, who wants the stimulus to create...