Word: swaps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ownership of Turin's soccer team, Juventus. But the core of the business is still cars, and that is where Elkann's mettle will be tested. Fiat saw its share of the Italian auto market fall from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s, before striking a stock-swap deal with General Motors in 2000. Fiat needs to reaffirm the brand at home and expand abroad. That was perhaps Gianni Agnelli's greatest achievement--and could be Elkann's greatest challenge. --By Jeff Israely/Rome
...happens, I don't much care for Stephen King's books. Maybe I'm out of touch with my dark side, but I'd swap his oeuvre for J.K. Rowling's in a magic moment, or George R.R. Martin's for that matter. But I applaud the National Book Foundation's choice, and I hope it encourages the small but determined school of writers who are carefully, lovingly grafting the prose craft of the literary heap onto the sinewy, satisfying plots of the trashy one to produce hybrid novels that offer the pleasures of both. Writers like Donna Tartt...
...Still, last week, Kudrin tersely told Abramovich that such donations must come from "the state budget" rather than his tax breaks. Whatever his reasons, Abramovich looks as if he wants to keep selling. He recently ditched another 37.5% stake in the Ruspromavto auto company. So will the richest Russian swap his Chukotka governorship for the title of Sir Roman? That might depend on how much money Putin will let him withdraw from Russia. And the extent of Putin's generosity may tell other oligarchs how much of today's riches they might get to keep
...example, TI documented how half of all expectant mothers must pay on average bribes of $22 for a doctor to attend the birth, while 70% of new mothers give hospital staff $4-$6 just to immediately see the gender of their newborns. (Staff play on fears that they might swap babies...
Much of his artistic integrity, though, may remain intact due of Zwick’s ability to swap and combine the roles of director, writer and producer—a skill that earns him a large degree of creative control over his projects...