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What's valued at more than $231 billion? Answer: the assets of some 3.8 million current and former federal employees, everyone from letter carriers to U.S. Senators, whose retirement funds are socked away in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), one of the largest and fastest-growing 401(k)-style funds in the U.S. If Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut has his way, the TSP will soon radically alter the way it picks some of its stocks. Lieberman told TIME he will introduce legislation to give all TSP participants the option to disinvest in companies that do business in or with...
...training, micro-credit loans, rights awareness and leadership education. Most of all, it gives women a voice. Salbi's group organizes "women's circles," which connect 20 local women in support networks, and recruits sponsors--"sisters"--around the world who correspond with the war-affected women regularly by letter...
...fence. "I thought to myself, This is it--I am done," says McDonald. She voiced her concerns on the town website. "I got 85 responses to do something," she says. She helped found the Franklin Reserve Neighborhood Association (FRNA), which today has 405 members. FRNA created a "good neighbor" letter to let absentee landlords know when their renters were causing problems, and organized a Sunday-afternoon lawn cleanup for 27 foreclosed homes. Its attentiveness also helped the police shut down 33 houses used to grow and distribute marijuana...
...Nobel Prize for Literature for writing a memorable slogan. But you will earn a well-deserved place in marketing history, according to this engaging teaching guide/love letter to "words that sell brands, grip fans & sometimes change history." After all, says Cone, the chief marketing officer for Epsilon and a veteran phrasemaker, look at the enduring impact of power lines such as Morton Salt's "When it rains it pours" (1912) and McDonald's "You deserve a break today" (1971). Whatever you do, counsels the author, "change everything but a great line." That sort of inspiration, he maintains, is the voice...
...transition between the raucous end-of-year celebrations and the lucrative consulting position that has been on their mind since the congratulatory phone call from McKinsey. In the midst of it all, maybe some of the modesty and perspective that escaped out the window so long ago as that letter arrived will return home for good...