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...moved to PIMCO, a leading bond manager in Newport Beach, Calif. with a strong emerging markets business.During the Brazilian financial crisis of 2002, El-Erian bucked conventional wisdom in contending that the country would improve its financial state and avoid defaulting on its loans, Heller recalled. He was proven right, leading to a big payoff for PIMCO—and boosting his prominence even higher.“He’s probably the most high-profile emerging markets investor in the world, right now,” Heller said. “If there’s somebody who?...
...comprehensive prevention strategies and promotion of condom use and safe sex. The abstinence-only approach appeared only after the U.S. started exporting that ideology after 2001. U.S. funding for hiv prevention in Uganda has abstinence-only strings attached, resulting in a prevention program that has abandoned an effective and proven strategy that incorporated condom use. Tragically, the decade-long decline in hiv prevalence has reversed itself, and new infections are again on the rise in Uganda. Steven W. Sinding, Director-General International Planned Parenthood Federation London...
...hoping to languish away an afternoon filling out grant applications or reading news (“Record Crowd Attends Springfest”) from 2004—understands that it fails miserably at its most rudimentary purpose: functionality. Besides stale grant applications, the site’s voting system has proven difficult to configure in the past, and individuals still have access to the system who have long since departed Sever...
...country that virtually invented the world's most successful and frequently imitated quality-control systems in high technology and heavy industry, Japan's ability to soar into space on its own has proven surprisingly ill-starred. The country's domestically developed rockets have suffered five launch failures out of 49 since 1980, well below internationally acceptable levels. (China has lost eight rockets in 80 launches.) The most recent humiliation for Japan was an aborted launch of two spy satellites in 2003, when one of the flagship H-2A rockets' two boosters failed to separate from the main rocket shortly after...
...Evidence also showed that Erickson had been the target of allegations of sexual misconduct before arriving in Hudson, but the charges were never proven and he was never disciplined by the church, nor were the people of Hudson aware of the young priest's record. Because the defendant in this case was deceased, the hearing this week took place without a jury, and the judge ruled that if Erickson were alive there would be probable cause to charge him with sexual assault and murder. Erickson's attorney and parents, who maintain that he is not guilty, refused to attend...