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...York City, that does risk management and dispute resolution. When I started working on the West Coast, around the late '80s, the project manager called the president and said, "We would really, really like to hire your company, but only under one condition. That you don't put Pat Galloway on the job, because we just really are not going to be able to deal with a woman on this project." The president came to me and said, "We'll give up this job. We don't like our employees being treated this way, but we want to discuss...
...Crimson came within a single point of being national champions a year ago when then-freshman Garnett Booth’s match shockingly turned on a series of questionable calls from the official against then-Trinity captain, Pat Malloy. Booth ended losing his match, which turned out to be a crushing blow for Harvard, as neither then-freshman Jason De Lierre nor James Bullock ’04 could get the Crimson a crucial fifth...
...personal happiness list. Janet Parkhurst Cape Town Happiness is a gift, not a commodity. Even the poor have the ability to cultivate and share happiness. We can find pleasure in the small things we often take for granted: a smile, a helping hand, a kiss, a wave, a pat on the back, a glass of water, a promise kept. And when you find the source, you know it. Sometimes happiness overflows, but it never destroys. Paul Aboh Lagos Thank you for the tips and techniques for finding happiness and peace of mind. In particular, "Eight Steps Toward a More Satisfying...
...make no mistake, Clissold reports from deep in the trenches. Eventually Pat invests in a variety of companies in China, dealing with everything from beer to brake pads; there's nothing glamorous about any of them. Clissold, a fluent Mandarin speaker, becomes Pat's chief troubleshooter--and there's plenty of trouble. (How does $58 million "disappearing" from the books of a company you've bought grab you?) This is the mid to late '90s, remember, when to many Chinese the definition of capitalism still seemed to be "The foreigner comes, gives me a lot of money, then goes away...
...several brilliantly drawn characters is a bureaucrat--"the chief engineer of the First Light Industry Bureau" of the Beijing city government--a Madame Wu Hongbo, otherwise known to Clissold as "my old Chinese sparring partner." The accounts of his tangles with her--she "regulates" the Chinese partner with which Pat has bought a beer company--are hilarious, and sobering...