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...brought with him some new ideas. For Interbank to thrive, he reasoned, it had to be globally competitive. So the company set about benchmarking top performers--Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton and, of course, a few banks--to understand what it would take. "We started learning, and little by little we started recruiting," he says. Now there are some 50 U.S.-trained Peruvian M.B.A.s on staff...
...know what the poker analogy would be. "Please, see all my cards and take my money...
...that, she could be fired. "We are still in open negotiations with the [hospital] administration," she says, hopeful that her employer can find some way to accommodate the objections she and others have to getting the shot. "I am not willing to be terminated, but I am willing to take it that...
...stadium--the largest in South America--while rowers and triathletes will ply Rio's blue waters beneath the outstretched arms of the titanic Christ the Redeemer statue. But many of the venues for the 2016 Games--including the João Havelange Olympic Stadium, where track-and-field events will take place--don't meet IOC standards or will require extensive renovations. Nearly 20 will need to be built from scratch. Cariocas, as Rio's residents are called, are still reeling from the final bill for 2007's much smaller Pan American Games, which ended up costing the city 10 times...
...political method has failed badly,†said McKibben. “Virtually nothing has been done to grapple with the scale of this problem or to take measures of the kind we need to take...