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...outpouring of public support for an ordinance to protect Cambridge residents from the hazards of asbestos culminated in a vote of unanimous approval at the City Council meeting last night...
...hire a president to oversee operations. Garnick says he stepped down as CEO "for the good of the company," though he continued as chairman. But he says, "I was being boxed out of key decisions." Garnick resigned from the board of directors a few months before the company went public last July. The company's market capitalization is now about $250 million, 5% of it Garnick's. The moral of his story? "Don't go into starting your own business with rose-colored glasses," Garnick says. "Go in with your eyes wide open...
...night news writer and producer for CNN in Atlanta. "I was out of synch with the rest of the world," he recalls. He quit last fall, and insists, "You couldn't pay me enough to go back." Instead, he chose to become a 9-to-5 public relations specialist for United Parcel Service--a company that happens to be one of the major employers of nightworkers...
...Summers is not the only European sex chain with international ambitions. Germany's Beate Uhse--which also takes an upmarket, Main Street approach to marketing erotic paraphernalia--stunned local financial markets in May when its initial public offering of 8.4 million shares was 63 times oversubscribed. It is now one of Germany's hottest stocks, trading in the $19 range. Beate Uhse is likewise expanding operations elsewhere in Europe and beyond. In September the company acquired a chain of 44 "erotic discount centers," plus a Dutch mail-order company that offers a full range of sex toys, videos and publications...
Readers get tips on attire, business-card customs, entertaining and dining, conversation, gestures and public manners, gift giving, greetings and introductions, punctuality, tipping and so on for each area and all the specific countries therein. This way you'll know not to blow your nose in public in Belgium, where it's considered an offensive gesture. Or not to eat everything on your plate in Taiwan. Knowing the local language is an advantage in getting acquainted with others and being accepted. But if you're not fluent, says Sabath, "one way to successfully conduct business is to become knowledgeable about...