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...Early in his career Mittal was aware of the importance of leverage. After graduating from college in 1976, he set up a 25-employee bicycle-crankshaft factory in his hometown of Ludhiana in the northwestern province of Punjab. Part of the seed capital was $400 from his family?although his late father was a member of India's Parliament, he was no tycoon. After Mittal parlayed the business into one large enough to be creditworthy, he made sure to carry a table tennis paddle in his pocket whenever he visited his local banker. The manager loved to play, so Mittal...
...floor of the north Atlantic, in the frigid depths off Spain's craggy Costa da Morte (Death Coast), sits a time bomb. The Prestige lies in shame, 145 nautical miles off the northwestern state of Galicia, and its remaining cargo - at least 55,000 tons of thick fuel oil - could detonate in days, weeks or months into a great black tide of viscous goo, unleashing one of the worst marine disasters ever. But if King Neptune is kind, the sunken tanker may just sleep, its cargo solidified, having done all the dirty work it will ever do. Its work...
...Northwestern student correctly answered 10 of 11 questions. Jost answered only four of eight questions correctly in the preliminary rounds, but was able to move on after voting out his more successful competitor...
Although Jost was marked as the “weakest link” in the last three preliminary rounds, he joined the UNLV student to vote out the contestant from Northwestern...
...from Northwestern clearly should have won,” Jost said...