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...least, Morales' brinksmanship seems to be bearing fruit. Though the deadline went down to the wire, this past weekend Morales triumphantly declared to his countrymen, "Mission Accomplished." The ten new signed contracts that sat in front of him will bring in a total of somewhere between $2 to $4 billion in revenue to the state annually, rather than the $250 million the country has received each year since the system was privatized. "Bolivia needs the foreign companies to survive," Hydrocarbons Minister Carlos Villegas told TIME in an interview. "But we want business partners, not bosses...
...will Allergan. After buying up Inamed, minus Reloxin, it formed a separate medical-aesthetics division. Part of its mission, according to its head, Robert Grant: to build "a total facial-rejuvenation portfolio" that can capitalize on Allergan's Botox-driven market reach. "This is an opportunity to create a new category which will have legs not just for the next decade but for the next 100 years," he says...
...role in the creation of a Web site designed to help college students enter the workforce. Allan P. Sahagun ’09 and his brother Aaron Sahagun, a University of California-Berkeley graduate, are the founders of alumwire.com, a “professional network with the mission to effectively consolidate important career resources,” according to the Web site. The site, which is available to invitees and anyone with a college e-mail address, offers career advice forums, posts of interviews, and job search features. Like Facebook.com, MySpace.com, and other social networking sites, it also allows users...
...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
Could Southwest include positions on customer comfort and safety ratings in its mission statement? Sure. But that extra information might hinder, not help, employees looking to the corporate ethos as a guide for making decisions...