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...paced hobby. Parks left her native Midwest to work in Southern California, rising swiftly to become a respected executive in the paper industry. In 1994, during the height of the telecom frenzy, she jumped to US West's Denver headquarters to run a $2.6 billion division. In 2000 computer maker Gateway lured her away to a similar position out of San Diego. And in 2002 Dallas-based Kinko's crowned her head of operations, the office-services company...
...JANET MAKER Los Angeles...
...companies have embraced Allen's philosophy as thoroughly as General Mills, the Minnesota-based maker of Cheerios and Lucky Charms. Allen began at the company with a couple of private coaching sessions for top executives, who raved about his guidance. Allen and his staff now hold six to eight two-day training sessions a year. The company has already put more than 2,000 employees through GTD training and plans to expand it company-wide. "Fads come and go," says General Mills exec Kevin Wilde, "but this continues to work...
...Participation is limited. You're not going to see a wealth effect"-a decline in consumption because people feel poorer when stocks fall-"and companies don't use the market as a major tool of financing." Investors who thus savaged the stock of, say, Caterpillar Inc., a heavy-equipment maker in Peoria, Illinois, because they feared the company's booming China business was suddenly going to fall off the cliff should probably rethink that a bit. As Jun Ma, the chief economist for greater China at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, says, "We do not see any significant impact...
...need to shed light on an area that has been shrouded in secrecy for so long,” he said. “This is a bipartisan issue—actually, a nonpartisan issue.” Connolly said the legislation, which has the backing of cigarette maker Philip Morris, is expected to face opposition in Washington from some members of Congress and tobacco lobbyists. Some Republicans argued yesterday that the FDA was not the proper agency to regulate the tobacco industry, according to news reports.But with control of Congress having shifted to the Democrats, supporters of the bill...