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...terminated contract. The court immediately replaced Prudential managers with a receiver, who fired key staff. By the time Prudential got the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict in June, sales of new policies had fallen 50%. Since then, Prudential has fought off two other attempts to declare the unit bankrupt, including one last week (Sept. 23). Charlie Oropeza, president-director of Prudential's Indonesia operations, calls his situation "wacky." The legal system "is the biggest and most urgent problem for us," he says...
King also fielded a high snap at his own 39-yard line with under two minutes to go and Brown sending its punt block unit in the hopes of establishing field position for a game-winning score. But King’s 40-yarder out of bounds pinned the Bears at their own 21, giving the Harvard defense a cushion...
...tranquil enough to hold elections tomorrow. He might want to check in with the British troops in the "tranquil" south he described, because they tell the BBC that last month alone one base at Amarrah suffered 853 separate attacks, the most frequent combat experienced by a British army unit since the Korean...
...luxury-car maker has been plagued by slipping sales and quality ratings; Cordes' job is to get it back on track. He most recently ran the parent company's truck division, where he managed a remarkable turnaround by cutting costs and emphasizing profitability. Following a 2002 loss, the unit turned a $1 billion operating profit last year. With that sort of record, Cordes just might find himself as Daimler's next chairman...
Smaller boutique hotels, such as El Remanso elremanso.com on the Pacific Coast, have found ways to be environmentally conscious from the ground up. Fallen wood was used to build El Remanso's roomy cabins, so no rare hardwood trees were logged. Each unit is surrounded by a moat of moving water that keeps ants out of the rooms, eliminating the need for pesticides...