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...business or undercutting its work force. ETrade began in 1982 as an online trade service for professionals. In 1996, after current CEO Christos Cotsakos came aboard, the first incarnation of a website that today serves nearly 1.5 million investors was launched. This year, by acquiring several companies, including the largest online bank and a financial-news site, Cotsakos began transforming ETrade from an e-brokerage to an online financial-services supermarket...
...with 20 years of an astonishing average annual growth rate of close to 10 percent - over the last decade alone, China's GDP has increased by more than 300 percent - Deng's quiet revolution has transformed one of the world's poorest countries in 1949 into its seventh-largest economy 50 years later...
Take Ahmed. Ahmed was THE fishman at Supersol, the largest grocery store in West Jerusalem, where I did my shopping almost daily this summer. Despite the fact that Ahmed, an Arab-Israeli resident of the Old City of Jerusalem has never seen the ocean, he loves fish. Every day after we said our hellos, regardless of whether I was even purchasing dairy products, Ahmed insisted on describing the catch of the day, in detail, and the exact way to cook salmon or tuna to perfection...
...study found that Harvard is the area's second largest private employer behind Partners Health Care System but ahead of Bell Atlantic and Fidelity Investments...
Specifically, the campaign means the millions of volumes in Harvard's largest library will be free of heat, humidity and sunlight...