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...There are still some lingering doubts about China's system for guaranteeing product safety, patients' health (What happens to them when the trial ends?) and intellectual-property protection. Authorities arrested 774 people in August and September as part of a crackdown on the sale of tainted food, drugs and agricultural products. Two-thirds of multinational drug companies told the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in a recent survey that they remained concerned about both IP protection and corruption in China...
Michalewicz, who holds a business degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), has worked in financial services at Ernst & Young and Raymond James. He met McColl in Charlotte, where Bank of America is based. Michalewicz's father Zbigniew is a product of Warsaw's famed schools of mathematics and a former chairman of the computer-science department at uncc; he serves as NuTech's head scientist. Father and son, who immigrated from Poland in 1989, started NuTech with businessman Daniel Cullen. In April they were able to organize a meeting with Walesa through connections there. Walesa...
...billion, in a decade and cement its position as the world's largest food company. With brands that include Stouffer's frozen dinners, Perrier and Pellegrino water, Nescafe coffee, Friskies cat food, Carnation milk, Buitoni pasta and After Eight chocolate mints, it's the leader in hundreds of product categories worldwide. But Brabeck isn't satisfied. "The most important role I have in this organization is fighting against complacency," he says. His overriding goal: to double Nestle's sales once again, this time more cost efficiently...
...look at it, you'll find that a great deal of the Internet growth has come through up-selling by newspapers of a wide range of their product. That's why they're equipped to go after the three major areas in which they are under threat: cars, houses and jobs. Look up PropertyNews.com which is the largest property site here, with 11 billion hits per month, more than the BBC--the biggest thing right now in Ireland. It's got 20,000 properties on it. It's the most advanced site of its type, and we bought it yesterday...
...This increased anti-immigrant sentiment is largely a product of a feeling that Hispanic immigrants are less likely to assimilate to “American culture.” But at the heart of the entire debate are competing concepts of national identity. For some it means Christian values, English language, and little identification with any specific ethnicity. For others it only means shared values of freedom and justice. Yet, this again, misses the crux of the issue. The truth is that there never has been a “typical” American. We are a nation of many...