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...initial yearly package costing around $200,000. That's not cheap, but Williams calls it good value considering it helps clients place strategic bets worth millions. Sectors constantly affected by uncertainty and flux may find it most useful: think telecoms, oil companies, traders, insurers and betting companies. Firms that toil in steady environments may be less interested but, as Williams points out: "There seem to be fewer and fewer of those around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapid Response | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...layers of difficulty for a team that was already breaking in five new coaches. How the squad responds to the suspensions, and how untested replacements perform, will determine how successful the Crimson is in the early part of the season. ***Athletes in sport, no matter the playing field, constantly toil under the microscope. Perhaps this was never more the case than in the run-up to Harvard’s spring practices. On March 13, a mother of two and student at North Carolina Central reported to police that she had been raped by several Duke men?...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL 06: A Long, Dark Journey to the Fall | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

...that Ford suffers from a lack of talented employees. Scores of ace designers and engineers toil in the ranks, and you can see their work in a handful of recently launched models, like the Mustang, the Mercury Milan and the Ford Fusion, all critical and commercial hits. Ford also became the first American automaker to sell a hybrid SUV, with the Escape model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford: Just Fix the Car | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...soulless chaos of modernity, it's not enough for someone to do a good job developing/manufacturing/hawking pharmaceuticals--or to be a productive member of society more broadly. Many of us need the deep, underlying purpose of our daily toil spelled out in fancy-pants terms. Why then should parenting be any different? When handing our child a paint set, we want to know we're doing something grander than simply keeping her occupied until dinner. (Expressive planning! Original art!) And since so much of child rearing involves playing the same games, singing the same songs and answering the same questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Essay Will Help Your Kid Get Ahead | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...school principal Len Boyle. "It's far better now that the money, and responsibility, is in the hands of local comm-unities." Independently run by an Aboriginal community board, the school draws on funding from Perth, Canberra and philanthropists. Indeed, filing grant applications is the heart of Boyle's toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool School In the Desert | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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