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...He’s already a world-class swimmer and definitely has a good shot at the Olympics in 2004,” Shevchik said...
Education is noble, but a business too. World-class universities must compete in a world market for top-flight professors, research grants and funds to build labs and support needy students. Oxford and Cambridge have huge advantages over less famous universities (Britain now has almost 100), but with the country spending a smaller portion of its GDP on universities than 20 years ago, they too must struggle. Compared to American universities in particular, which the British government frequently extols, they are poor and getting relatively poorer. Harvard professors earn 70% more, on average, than their Cambridge counterparts. All U.K. universities...
...Samsung Electronics' future is a listing on a U.S. stock exchange, but first the company will have to convince the sec that its accounting is up to American standards. For the most part, analysts view the firm as a world-class business. Among foreign investors--who own more than 50% of Samsung Electronics' shares--there is some concern that management is still subject to the whims of the Samsung Group's Lee family. Chairman Lee Kun Hee, the founder's son, wields outsize personal influence throughout the Samsung empire. One fear is that Samsung Electronics' profits could be siphoned...
...Samsung Electronics' future is a listing on a U.S. stock exchange, but first the company will have to convince the sec that its accounting is up to American standards. For the most part, analysts view the firm as a world-class business. Among foreign investors - who own more than 50% of Samsung Electronics' shares - there is some concern that management is still subject to the whims of the Samsung Group's Lee family. Chairman Lee Kun Hee, the founder's son, wields outsize personal influence throughout the Samsung empire. One fear is that Samsung Electronics' profits could be siphoned...
...Samsung Electronics' future is a listing on a U.S. stock exchange, but first the company will have to convince the sec that its accounting is up to American standards. For the most part, analysts view the firm as a world-class business. Among foreign investors - who own more than 50% of Samsung Electronics' shares - there is some concern that management is still subject to the whims of the Samsung Group's Lee family. Chairman Lee Kun Hee, the founder's son, wields outsize personal influence throughout the Samsung empire. One fear is that Samsung Electronics' profits could be siphoned...