Word: promotionism
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Petraeus and 14 other Army generals are reviewing the files of about 2,000 colonels, looking for 40 or so worthy of promotion to brigadier general. "This is really unprecedented," says military historian Robert Scales, a retired two-star general and former head of the Army War College. "A whole...
Jones argues that poor marketing and promotion, rather than stiffer rents, had been the industry's main problems. "Two years ago, the industry wasn't confident. Now, it is." Rowland agrees: "We let 'Savile Row Bespoke' be used right, left and center." Today, a "collective mark" trademark registration of the...
Argentina is just as sensibly working to cut its dependence on commodities-- the bane of almost every Latin economy. Argentina, which has one of the region's more skilled workforces, recently passed a biotechnology-promotion law to channel incentives to biotech firms. One, Bio Sidus, with $40 million in annual...
Then Giuliani gave Kerik the news: He would announce the next day that he was appointing Kerik deputy corrections commissioner. The promotion would make Kerik the No. 2 man at the agency overseeing the city's prisons and lockups. Kerik balked, worried about his qualifications, but Giuliani insisted. "Just do...
Giuliani is betting that voters will see his promotion of Kerik in the broader context of his record. "I'm not running as the perfect candidate, and I'm not running as the perfect President," he said. "What I'm running as is someone who's had a great deal...