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With all the ills rampant in the country, one need only look at the faces of these immigrants to know that everything is going to be O.K. America is still on the right track. John A. Ciciarelli Beaver Falls...
...these shenanigans with due sardonic edge, and includes deft vignettes about Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Martin Scorsese. But his portrait of Cimino, who did not cooperate in the writing of the book, strains for a balance that Bach finally cannot strike. He berates Cimino for rampant egomania and describes a conflict of interest regarding the director's choice of a location. Land that United Artists had cleared and improved with an irrigation system turned out to belong to the filmmaker. But Bach later states emphatically that Cimino's sole ambition was "to create ... a work...
...person who gives others "a sense of joy, happiness, relaxation or rejuvenation," says Sanders, is more likely to be hired, promoted and retained. According to research, he says, likeable bosses, rather than inconsiderate or feared ones, get the best work out of employees. Nastiness, which he says is rampant, translates into less productivity, higher turnover and a culture of unhappiness. And don't assume, in this day of BlackBerrys and e-mail, that your unpleasantness stops at the office door. "As the brick wall that once separated professional from personal crumbles," says Sanders, "we are slowly becoming the same person...
...legal and effective solution like iTunes immediately after online music began to gain popularity; instead, they sued scores of consumers and resisted the inevitability of the fall of the CD and the rise of the MP3. The result is a nation of bitter consumers, depressed music sales, and rampant illegal file sharing. There is an iTunes service that, while successful, would have been immeasurably more successful had it been activated years earlier—before the spread of illicit services like Kazaa and Limewire. As it turned out, the recording industry was damaged by its own draconian devices...
Acting as midwife to China's difficult economic rebirth can be financially dangerous. The country's legal and management landscape is murky. Disputes between Chinese managers and their Western backers are commonplace, while graft and corruption are rampant. But for these leaders, the art of the Chinese deal is about building a modern, civilized society. "Foreign investors who bring money and technology to private domestic firms are doing exactly the right thing," says Yasheng Huang, author of Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment in the Reform Era. "If you can structure your investment so that you take advantage of China...