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...Zander kept most of the existing top managers. He did get rid of the CEO's palatial executive suite, complete with private bathroom and treadmill. With so much space, "Who do I talk to?" he asks, laughing. He now sits with the other top managers in a cluster of modest glass-fronted offices. His isn't even the largest, and his secretary gets the view. Ask Motorola executives about their CEO, and they are almost as likely to tease him--about his taste for what he calls cooked sushi or his complaints about the commute to Schaumburg--as praise...
...janitors employed would face more competition for their jobs from a group of people with a greater skill set than those previously applying. The current employees might be replaced by these more qualified employees. The raise meant to help the current Harvard custodians would end up hurting them. The modest changes in benefits we support, providing childcare to part-time workers, offering paternity/maternity leave, etc., would not have such a large distorting effect on the labor market. Moreover, these proposals are explicitly tied to family values, something Harvard cannot turn its back on. Family is one of the most important...
...small companies are especially vulnerable because even modest trading can move the stock. Naked short selling "has got to push the price down," says James Angel, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University. He says the rate of short selling has nearly doubled in the past five years, to 36% of all trades. In the same period, assets held in hedge funds, which are active short sellers, more than doubled, to more than $1 trillion...
...only hope for the rest of the league would have been a Brown opponent with a relatively solid rushing defense. But that’s just not the case here. The Bears will likely let up off the throttle after halftime, leading to a modest 20 point...
...helped me while I was going through a lot of stuff,” he says of the Simon and Garfunkel song from which the tattoo derives its inscription. In the clamor of one of the largest Houses on campus, he’s still searching for that modest goal of tranquility and peace...