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...more power and wealth in the hands of the state sector than what has ever occurred in countries such as Japan and South Korea. Beijing is nurturing state-owned champions to dominate domestic markets and crowd out the private sector in order for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to keep its economic relevance, privileged status in Chinese society and hands on the country's wealth. This means the CCP does not believe sweeping economic, much less political, liberalization is required for China's continued rise, let alone that it constitutes the endgame. (Read "China...
...opportunity to consolidate and buy up companies with liquidity problems." Constantine Petropoulos, chairman of Petros Petropoulos, a $158 million firm that sells cars, automotive supplies and industrial equipment, has already diversified his business, inking a deal to distribute Shell lubricants in Greece and Cyprus, a move he figures will keep revenues flat and prevent them from deteriorating. He plans to beef up his portfolio further. "We will acquire businesses that we wouldn't have ever been able to consider in better times," he says. "We will come out of this a stronger company...
...keep children out of risk, de la Soudière needs the help of people like St. Louis and Edith Philistin. A Haitian nurse volunteering on the U.S. naval hospital ship in Port-au-Prince Bay, Philistin was tending to a 6-year-old boy named Kenzie, who was getting emergency treatment for a fractured leg. Both of his parents had died in the quake, and when he couldn't name any relatives - child psychologists say it's not unusual in traumatic situations for a 6-year-old's memory to get cloudy - doctors on the ship were inclined to send...
Even as the children become an integral part of the House community, they say their parents strive to keep their family life as normal—and as private—as possible...
...it’s Housing Day and you just found out you got into Dunster. Though some of your friends may shoot you pitying glances and offer you patronizing words of sympathy, fear not! Dunster’s negative reputation is merely a front to keep the joys of this red-towered House a secret for the worthy only...