Word: northwesterner
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...What do you think about a certain firm’s business decision?’”Rangan found himself drawn to the field of marketing, and pursued the subject at IIM Ahmedabad and then at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. “The main thing that intrigued me was the discussion of cases rather than lectures from a textbook,” Rangan said. “That appealed to me after going through the rigorous engineering program at IIT. In IIM, instead of taking more Operations Research courses, such as technology and mathematics...
...number of Harvard professors have signed on to a letter—authored by Paola Sapienza at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and Luigi Zingales at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business—which calls on congressional officials to take more time in considering the provisions of the bailout and expresses concerns about the plan’s fairness, ambiguity, and long-term effects...
...suspected to be an amalgamation of home-grown and Pakistan-based terror outfits that profess to seek revenge for the purported injustices and atrocities against the country's Muslim minority. In addition to the Ahmedabad and Bangalore blasts, Indian Mujahideen has claimed to have been behind blasts in the northwestern city of Jaipur in May, as well as serial blasts in the northern cities of Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in November...
...Pakistan has been a victim of terrorism, it has also been its enabler. As the focus of the U.S.'s war on terrorism has moved from Afghanistan to Iraq and back again, there is a widely dawning realization that its central front is actually Pakistan. Here in the mountainous northwestern fringes of the nation, where a fierce tribal code values honor and the protection of guests, that Osama bin Laden and his key lieutenants are thought to be hiding. From these tribal areas, al-Qaeda and remnants of the Afghan Taliban, protected by their Pakistani friends, have launched attacks into...
...felt relieved, Baton Rouge was surprised. The state capital appeared to get the brunt of Hurricane Gustav after it made landfall Monday morning. New Orleans was hit hard early Monday as Gustav came ashore west of New Orleans over Terrebonne parish. By midday, however, the storm had taken a northwestern turn, which brought it closer to Baton Rouge than was predicted. Winds were gusting at more than 70 m.p.h. in the metro Baton Rouge area, where top local, state and federal officials - including Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Senator David Vitter and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - were hunkered down...