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...blaming these individuals. After all, it's not their fault that they're wooed and enticed by scouts from high school promising big bucks and fast living; they're merely byproducts of a larger system that places and incredible premium on marketable athletic talent...
...peso devaluation ``raised the premium for emerging markets,'' said Peter Churchouse, managing director of Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong. ``American investors in particular got into them in a wave of euphoria. A lot of the new investors were naive to the risks. What Mexico has done is to hit everyone over the head and say, `Look, there are risks...
...wiggle through a loophole in U.S. regulations that would require an overseas client to pay a share of a weapon's development. Sweden was willing to pay $300,000 apiece for the U.S. AMRAAM air-to-air missile. However, it balked at the additional $100,000-a-copy development premium for any weapon purchased through the Pentagon. So, with a wink from the Administration, Sweden will buy the missile directly from the manufacturer -- and avoid a contribution to U.S. tax coffers. Meanwhile, the Administration's stepped-up arms sales rack up $1 million a day for everything from the salaries...
Sony paid a daunting premium when it bought Columbia Pictures: 22 times the company's annual cash flow. But its bigger problem may have been a man, not a number: Michael Schulhof, president of Sony's U.S. subsidiary. A smart, capable 20-year company veteran with a Ph.D. in physics, Schulhof charmed his Japanese bosses with the nonconfrontational style to which they were accustomed. He was the only American to serve on the company's board. As a protege of both Ohga and Sony founder Akio Morita, he was given complete autonomy over the Hollywood operation even though he knew...
...faculty member at the meeting wondered if the committee would address changes to faculty benefits already announced, such as cutting faculty pensions by one percent and tying Harvard's health care premium contribution to salary level...