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...other purchases - Chicago's LaSalle Bank, Charles Schwab's private banking program - earned him a reputation as a man with a penchant for savvy multi-billion dollar deals. This January, he bought Countrywide Financial Corp. for $4 billion in stock, adding "largest mortgage provider" to Bank of America's list of bragging rights and saving Countrywide from possible bankruptcy. With that purchase, Lewis became a kind of quasi-savior on Wall Street - the man who helped you stand when you could no longer do it on your own. If everything goes smoothly, the Merrill Lynch & Co. purchase - which some analysts...
...bench in the 14th minute to give a spark to the Harvard offense. “Mike came in and he was a shot of energy off the bat,” co-captain Luke Sager said. The Harvard men also added two new members to its list of 2008 scorers, with goals by junior Adam Rousmaniere and senior John Stamatis, both in the second half of play. Rousmaniere, who came on to start the second half, notched his first goal of the season by heading a cross from sophomore Alex Chi into the net in the 57th minute. Stamatis...
...agriculture has recovered by accepting an influx of cheap labor from Poland and other new European states. Arbroath's harbor has been regenerated by $2 million in E.U. grants that have turned its once-forbidding granite docks into a recreational marina with berths for 58 yachts - and a waiting list for more. Even the final surviving vestige of Arbroath's fishing industry - a locally cured haddock marketed as the "Arbroath Smokie" - has been bolstered by a Protected Geographical Indication from the European Commission, a similar status that protects sparkling wine from France's Champagne from imitators elsewhere...
Googling isn't the only way to take out the greenwashing, however. The TerraChoice website www.terrachoice.com offers a list of what it calls the "six sins of greenwashing"--six simple signs that should tip off consumers to a company that is more interested in selling the earth than saving it. One is the sin of irrelevance, in which, for example, a product trumpets the fact that it is "chlorofluorocarbon free"--even though those ozone-destroying chemicals have been banned for years, meaning the company is asking for applause for just following the law. Another is the sin of the hidden...
...interested in her advice.In contrast to Deans William C. Kirby and Jeremy R. Knowles, whom she described as “attentive” to her input, she said that Smith was less engaged.“He was so new to the job, he had such a long list of things to do,” Martin said. “We talked about things once in a while, but I think it was one of a very large number of things on his plate.”Smith said in an e-mailed statement that he considers minority...