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...company's lack of focus is showing on the balance sheet too. Tim Gaumer, director of fundamental research for StarMine, a financial-analysis firm, notes that Google's pretax return on assets declined to 7.6% in the quarter ending in June, down from 11.8% a year ago. "While significantly above the industry average, that's a rapid decline," Gaumer says. What has changed this year is that Google has ramped up its investment in areas with lower expected returns, such as infrastructure. Still, sales should reach $10 billion this year...
...much of a risk taker as you are when it comes to deals, you're at the same time very conservative with the balance sheet. How can those two coexist...
...only exception to that was when we [Travelers] reached to buy Primerica from Gerry Tsai, which was leveraged as it was. We leveraged it more because it was bigger than our company. We had to really pay attention to everything until we got our balance sheet back in line, which took about a year and a half. But most everything else we did in a very financially conservative way so that we really weren't risking things...
...himself at the center of a grizzly scandal at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s department of pharmacology. The controversy stemmed from a cheating incident that took place at an exam administered in his Pharmacology 331 course—a boy had apparently prepared a crib sheet and had been caught peeking at it during the test. Soon after, my father met with him in his office, listened to his weepy apologies, and examined his cheat sheet. It quickly became clear that the piece of paper could not have helped the boy in answering...
...temptations of oil money make political reform all the more imperative. There are some promising signs. The 2005 U.N. Development Program Fact Sheet praised Kazakhstan as "thus far the only country in the region that has begun a civil-service reform program." In Astana, Kuat Akizhanov, 30, head of the social-economic analysis department of the all-powerful presidential staff, holds a law degree from the University of Virginia, which he obtained under Kazakhstan's state-paid training program. He says his young Western-educated counterparts now constitute a tight network in major state institutions and private companies. "Even...