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While Simmons did not have any recommendations for specific programs that might remedy this situation, she said a solution in sight...
...improved the way we worked and the job we did largely by never losing sight of the big picture,” said Bok. “I think when he came in, the Corporation was getting far too much into minute details and was getting overwhelmed...he was very helpful in getting us to think afresh, get us focused far more on large, important issues and get away from the minutiae. He really helped us redefine the role of the board...
...said she thought the end was in sight...
...predecessor did. Goree island appeared abandoned, the brightly painted mustard and rose buildings that cater to vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
...what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements to passengers whose bags they can't find after 90 days. Unclaimed Baggage steps in at that point, buying and retrieving unidentified baggage sight unseen for resale. --By Paige Bowers