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...Absolute Worst Enron, the U.S. energy giant that brought the trading of electricity, oil and natural gas to the Internet, was once considered among the most innovative of companies. Then a combination of slumping energy prices, dubious accounting and trading practices, management hubris and a pile of debt brought the firm to its knees. Though 4,000 employees lost their jobs, the now bankrupt company did manage one last spending surge: it paid $55 million to 500 of its "critical" executives to persuade them to stay...
...squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer. A brawl almost erupts, but the vagrants lose their nerve and flee. The militants retreat, but not before setting fire to the pile of twisted tarpaulin and scraps of wood...
...points continued to pile up as Kristic and Rachael O’Beirne next went two-three in the 100-yard breaststroke. Kristic’s time of 1:05.25 was just one hundreth of a second short of Penn’s Jennifer Block. O’Beirne’s time was just .17 seconds off the winning time...
...points continued to pile up as Kristic and Rachael O’Beirne next went two-three in the 100-yard breaststroke. Kristic’s time of 1:05.25 was just one hundreth of a second short of Penn’s Jennifer Block. O’Beirne’s time was just .17 seconds off the winning time...
...Bush's unpolished rhetoric and simple delivery, once parodied, have the right pitch for the crisis - at least in the U.S. The President has been able to rally the country from both the rostrum and the rubble pile. Mention this evolution to the Bush team and you'll get howls. He was always thus, they complain: Bush has not suddenly grown talents from scratch; he has merely shifted his focus. When concentrating on specific tasks with identifiable goals, he has always performed well...