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...only thing more important than keeping in touch with current employees around the world is making sure that the company is hiring the best available new talent in each country. Scott Puritz, 44, is the CEO of OptiGlobe, a Web-hosting company that operates three data centers in Latin America--and that plans to build 14 more in the next year and a half. Of OptiGlobe's 350 employees, only 75 are located at the company's Bethesda, Md., headquarters. Puritz has never relocated any of his employees. "That's frightfully expensive, and it's going to take the employee...
...bridges to be built and land to be cleared for modern housing and industry--all with the yellow earthmovers and other heavy equipment made by Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Ill. A quarter of the firm's $21.2 billion annual revenues comes from exports, but not enough of it from Latin America, thanks in part to tariffs that can reach 30%. Create a giant free-trade zone in the hemisphere, says Petterson, a Caterpillar vice president, and "we calculate that industrywide, over 10 years, the market for construction equipment would be 60,000 machines higher"--or a cool $4.5 billion...
Gains like that, multiplied across scores of industries, will be much on the minds of President Bush and the other 33 heads of government from Latin America and Canada when they gather later this month in Quebec City for the third Summit of the Americas. Topping the agenda: how to move forward with the Free Trade Area of the Americas, an ambitious effort launched in 1994 to create a single market, free of trade barriers, from the southern tip of Chile to the Arctic Circle, with a population of 800 million and a total annual income of $11 trillion...
...Harden-if you're from New York, you know that's Latin for 'excited sissy'"-about Best Supporting Actress winner Marcia Gay Harden...
...palpably apparent tension, until Stewart resolved the matter, asserting his authority in the first of many explosive solos. Building up from a simple extended interplay between nothing but hi-hat and bass drum, Stewart frenetically tore into his kit, twisting spell-binding, gravity defying licks, occasionally straying into Latin inspired patterns that provided a pulsing cross-current to Murphy’s bass...