Word: sentimentalism
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...That's a sentiment that chimes with UBS shareholder Thomas Minder. "To say that I and many other shareholders lost confidence in UBS would be an understatement," says the CEO of Trybol, a small cosmetics company in the town of Neuhausen. At this point, I am not surprised by anything they...
...briefing in Sydney, Chinalco President Xiong Weiping tried to allay fears. "The transaction will in no way lead to any control of the natural resources of Australia," he said, adding that Rio's corporate strategies and management practices would also remain unchanged. For now at least, blatant anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia appears to be bottled up, and the investment is expected to go through...
Twenty years ago, when Lula was a firebrand unionist, that sentiment might have been dismissed as dreamy rhetoric. Not today. However the crisis ends, there is widespread agreement that developing economies such as Brazil, China and India will be crucial to ensuring that demand remains buoyant. Lula, too, has changed. These days he's a pragmatist who is as popular inside corporate boardrooms as he is in the favelas. On March 17, he will meet new U.S. President Barack Obama - a fellow moderate liberal who shares Lula's passion for green-energy ventures - in the White House. He will...
...qualities that helped eastern Europeans survive more than four decades of communist rule was a keen sense of irony. The sentiment was on show even as the old system of central control began to unravel and democracy and capitalism rushed in. The summer and fall of 1989 were full of passionate protestors and revolutionary honesty. But the millions of people who ripped open the Iron Curtain generally did so with an eyebrow cocked at what was replacing their decayed regimes. In the street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins...
...more resources, like home-care aides, at their disposal. The debate is an emotional one, says Paul Wolpe, director of the Atlanta-based Emory Center for Ethics, mainly because Americans are still uneasy with the idea of assisted suicide. Yet Jerry Dincin, Final Exit's vice president, believes the sentiment could be changing and that the right to die could become "the human right of the 21st century...