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...Putin's combination of authoritarian political instincts and market-friendly economic policies make him a political creature quite familiar in countries at Russia's level on the economic ladder - the authoritarian modernizer. Combined with his clampdown on political and media freedom and his ruthless war in Chechnya, Putin has delivered a solid economic performance that has seen investors turning bullish on a Russian economy that grew by 7.3 percent last year. Buoyed by high oil and natural gas prices, Russia's economy looks positively rosy right now compared to Yeltsin's final years. And Putin's brusque, businesslike and sometimes...
...which "they've banned grumpiness and attitude!" The screen flashes factoids (the average bed change takes 7 min.), and we learn lingo like "the 10-and-5 rule" (you look at hotel guests when they're 10 ft. away and greet them at 5). The execs descend the work ladder until we get to the money shot: the boss scrubbing a frying pan or a toilet. ("Some of our guests miss," a housekeeper warns Tisch as he tackles a commode...
...believes it is beginning to stabilize the playing field by increasing its international recruiting. This year’s freshman class certainly reflects that—with Siddharth Suchde from Switzerland and Ilan Oren from Israel filling the No. 2 and 3 spots on the Crimson’s ladder...
...Crimson will return all but two regular players next year, including the top three players on this year’s ladder. Those top three—intercollegiate No. 5 sophomore Will Broadbent, No. 7 freshman Siddharth Suchde and Oren—went a combined 9-0 in their matches this weekend and provided three of Harvard’s four wins in the championship match against the Bantams...
With Japanese and U.S. technology battling it out at the top, the only hope for domestic carmakers without joint-venture partners is to capture the bottom end of the market, then begin the slow ascent up the price-and-sophistication ladder. That's the path chosen by BYD, the former bombmaker. The Flyer retails for about $4,700, making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls...