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...ethanol plant and buy gizmos that track his fertilizer and pesticide use and the food and drug intake of every cow. It's no accident that agriculture's productivity growth consistently outpaces the rest of the economy--or that farms with million-dollar revenues are the fastest-growing agricultural sector. "We started with a corn knife and a scoop shovel, and look what's happened," he chuckles...
...fast-growing nonprofit sector faces a shortage of senior leaders estimated at 640,000 over the next decade, reports executive search firm Bridgestar. You may not be able to leave a financial legacy, but here are three ways you can live a fulfilling...
Today, UBS relies on recent university graduates to staff its offices around the world, using the best and brightest from Harvard and other top schools to maintain its position as a leader in the financial-services sector. But this success is dependent on the willingness of top university graduates to work for a company that underwrites genocide. For seniors seeking jobs after graduation, the deadline to apply for UBS is Nov. 15. For students applying for internships at the investment bank, the deadline is next March 15. If the budding bankers of Harvard submit their CVs to UBS, they will...
...Public discomfort over Sarkozy's raise may be accentuated by its timing. In just three weeks, the nation is set to undergo strikes potentially more paralyzing than those in October protesting cutbacks in certain public sector pension regimes. Union leaders have jumped on Sarkozy's pay hike to highlight what they call the President's reformist hypocrisy: clarifying and normalizing governmental pay scales by lifting them, while harmonizing public and private sector pension plans by scaling those downward. "There's a feeling the political class is helping itself while the French people are left on the sidewalk to fend...
...issue is lack of transparency in the oil sector," says South Sudan's Information Minister Samson Kwaje. Kwaje says that the government of south Sudan feels it is being "cheated" by Khartoum due to its lack of representation in both the energy and finance ministries. South Sudanese officials say that they are not involved in either the production or marketing of the oil, much less the calculation of how much their share of the petroleum pie should be. (Oil accounts for 95% of Juba's income.) Equally problematic is the ownership of Abyei, an oil-rich region caught between...