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...more than a billion, they are still a disadvantaged minority, and often the target of discrimination. Government surveys show that Muslims live shorter, poorer and unhealthier lives than Hindus and are often excluded from the better jobs. In urban areas, 40% of Muslims earn less than $6 a month, versus 22% of Hindus, and 30% of Muslims are illiterate, versus 19% of Hindus. Muslims make up 13% of the population, yet only 3% of government employees are Muslim. Of course, there are plenty of economic success stories among Muslims. Azim Premji, founder of the outsourcing giant Wipro Technologies, is India...
...your own effort. For example, if you have your own purchasing strategy, how much of the purchasing cost reduction is due to the fact that you have access to the data of your partner and you knew exactly what was the cost of it, and access to his supplier versus your own effort, or streamlining your process and organizing a better job between purchasing and engineering? And frankly it's irrelevant. What is important is to deliver the result... And that's what we need to confirm in the talks with the managers of General Motors, that there...
When I first got here, I was a disciplinarian. I put processes in place, thought there was always a right versus wrong. I realized over about a six-month period of time that I was getting on [owner and then CEO Gary Erickson's] nerves. He was an entrepreneur, trying new things. Every rule I set up, he broke it. We sat down and had a beer and realized that what each other had, we wanted a little of. I wanted to be able to release creative energy. He knew he needed processes in place...
...billion Estimated annual value of the Japanese market for U.S. beef, which has been banned since 2003 over fears of mad cow disease. Japan agreed to lift its ban on U.S. beef imports last week 3 Total confirmed cases of mad cow disease in the U.S., versus 27 in Japan...
...team was now in rare territory. "I've never experienced that," Arena said after the game. "We've trained 11 versus 10 but never 10 versus 9." This particular disadvantage required maximum effort from all the U.S players - it's a lot of space to cover on a 130-yard soccer field. "Claudio was fantastic, he had a great game," said Arena of his captain, Claudio Reyna, who marshaled the U.S. team with a combination of smarts and aggression, picking apart Italy's midfield with his passing. Despite the manpower shortage, the U.S. still managed to defend and attack...