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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Such shame does not exist elsewhere in the world.' BUGUN, Turkish newspaper, after 13 babies died of infection within 24 hours in one of Turkey's most modern maternity hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...authors give seven (of course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...What a shame that under your photograph of "green Londoner" Cameron commuting on his bike you forgot to tell us that a limousine follows him to carry papers he "cannot put in his pannier." Some "green Londoner," eh? Dennis O'Grady, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameron in Focus | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...haven’t always appreciated this. Despite these great blessings, there has always been something about me—something essential, unshakable—that caused me great shame. I am a homosexual. Not merely “different,” but dirty, diseased, despised...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy | Title: Finding Faith in Family | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...What a shame that in the caption to your photograph of "green Londoner" Cameron commuting on his bike, you forgot to tell us that a limousine follows him to carry papers he cannot put in his pannier. Some "green Londoner." Dennis O?Grady, Sheffield, United Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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