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...hopes to remake the bus-trip experience into a paragon of customer service. Wong and his four partners, one Spanish and the rest Chinese, are emphasizing service. "I don't want to copy from Greyhound," says Wong, who earned his M.B.A. from Indiana State University's business school. "My model is JetBlue...
...windfall profits it has been receiving from high oil prices, Russia's growth rate should be more like 15% than 6%, says Illarionov. Furthermore, Russia runs a clear risk by pegging so much of its economy to the energy sector. Illarionov describes Russia as evolving into "a new corporatist model" - one in which the economy is dominated by monopolistic quasi?state controlled corporations. In addition to Russia's renationalization of the oil industry, in November the country's weapons-trade monopoly, Rosoboronexport, announced it was taking control of Russia's largest auto manufacturer, the formerly privatized AvtoVAZ. The combination...
...Illarionov: The strengthening of the corporativist state model and setting up favorable conditions for quasi-state monopolies by the state itself hurt the economy. Like Gazprom purchasing Sibneft, and another state monopoly purchasing other private company. The state generated some $30 billion in debt to do just that. Or take the case of RAO UES (the electricity monopoly) buying a sizable part of the Power Machines Plant. When the state unraveled Yukos, officials insisted it was a single such case rather than a trend. But it soon became obvious that Yukos was not a single case, that this concerns...
...Illarionov: The process of this state evolving into a new corporativist (sic) model reached its completion in 2005. Quantitative changes have evolved into qualitative ones. The Freedom House best summed it up six months ago, when it downgraded Russia to "completely unfree" from "partially unfree." My job assumed the ability to hold free public discussions of ongoing processes. My willing suspension of this ability would have been a gross dereliction of official and professional duties on my part. I chose to resign instead...
...basket—literally. The Crimson's rough evening was encapsulated with 15:51 remaining, when with the Eagles already up by 46-24, Smith fell to the ground, tossed a 15-footer from the ground towards the rim, and watched the ball bounce in.BC was a model of offensive efficiency, shooting 61 percent from the floor and handing out assists on 28 of its 38 baskets—a figure that compares favorably to Harvard's nine assists on its 22 baskets.Rice was the main force behind that ball movement, contributing a game-high seven assists against just...