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...assets worth well over $2 trillion. But there is one aspect of UBS’s operations that might escape mention at the recruitment session: The bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.The Swiss-based bank is arranging a massive stock offering that could raise more than $8.9 billion for PetroChina, the publicly-listed arm of the China National Petroleum Corp. UBS and PetroChina/CNPC hope that the stock offering will be the largest in Chinese securities-exchange history. Earnings from the stock offering will fund new PetroChina/CNPC projects across the world...
What's wrong with the kitten and puppy mill industry is that it's basically an abuse of the breeding stock. Those animals are kept like chickens or pigs in pens, with feces and urine raining down on them, minimum nutrition, minimum medical care, no socialization of the newborn, no socialization of the parents, no exercise for the parents, no stimulation of the parents. People have this kooky idea that they're rescuing a pet from a pet store. They're actually perpetuating a very abusive industry, in which the mark-ups are 200%, 300%, 400%, 500% at each step...
...example, or efforts to improve mine safety or environmental protection - have some chance of being implemented, rather than simply receiving lip service. The issue is extremely urgent, Huang and other analysts say. China's leaders face a daunting series of challenges including rising inflationary pressure, swelling bubbles in the stock and property markets and highly uneven development that has seen incomes in urban and coastal areas triple or quadruple those in the rural hinterland. Not only must Hu attempt to engineer a soft landing for China's steaming economy and markets, he must also ensure that the myriad problems facing...
Still, some will end up less scathed than others. The banker with the most impressive record of avoiding scathings is Dick Kovacevich, chairman of Wells Fargo. Wells not only had an O.K. quarter but also has the best long-run stock performance of the country's big-five banks. So what does Kovacevich, who took over as president of Wells predecessor Norwest in 1989 and just stepped down as CEO in June, think of the current troubles? "We make all the same mistakes," he says. "These past two years show it again: we never learn, we don't price...
...seems a good time to pause and take stock of a program central to the academic life of all Harvard College students,” Gross wrote in a May 4 message obtained by The Crimson. A human resources consultant, he said, would look at Expos’s “work environment, faculty responsibilities and compensation, opportunities for professional development and organizational structure...