Tag: business
group name: britannica
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December 06, 2006 09:20 AM EST --
Both ambition and achievement now rise and fall with unprecedented speed. This new condition grows out of a sea change in our technological context, a kind of seismic wave that sweeps over the world every . . . more
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October 25, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
This year's graduating seniors at Northwestern University heard three great leadership lessons from their commencement speaker, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The lessons came from his own extraordinary . . . more
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . . more
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September 18, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
By 1962, Sam Walton, the late and legendary founder of Wal-Mart, had a total of six Ben Franklin stores in Arkansas and Kansas, but his ambitions were far from satisfied. Against opposition from his franchiser, . . . more
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October 30, 2006 10:07 AM EST --
When Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, he could have done anything he wanted. His mother and grandparents advised him to go to law school. His friends were landing jobs on Wall Street . . . more
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December 21, 2006 10:57 AM EST --
Those who refuse to accept the scientific consensus on global warming often come to their position because they want to "protect business." They worry that measures taken to curb greenhouse . . . more
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October 07, 2006 05:21 PM EDT --
Question: The stock market reached record highs this week. Have you benefited?
Results:
Yes -- 29%
No -- 71%
Go to the Gather Home Page at www.gather.com to vote on today's poll, and join or subscribe . . . more
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April 11, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
Margaret Mead said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, devoted citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that has.”
Here is the course these citizens have . . . more
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March 18, 2008 06:44 PM EDT --
Many experts say we are in the midst of the biggest housing bubble ever and are worried that the ensuing banking and credit crisis could spread like a virus. . . . more
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March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . . more
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
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September 16, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
In business, as in all fields, those who claim superior knowledge may impress some people some of the time. But those who never stop learning are the ones who wind up winning. Consider, for instance, the . . . more
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September 06, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
ClipQuote: John F. Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
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For . . . more
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September 10, 2006 02:20 PM EDT --
ClipQuote: Abraham Lincoln
"When you have gotten an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
For more ClipQuotes, join the ClipQuotes, . . . more
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September 12, 2006 09:09 AM EDT --
ClipQuote: General George Armstrong Custer
"Let's kick their ass and get the hell out of here."
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September 26, 2006 02:41 PM EDT --
Among the Liberal Arts disciplines, there's a persistent distrust (or is it intimidation?) of the business community. Certainly, this is in many ways well-founded--for example, aggressive technology-transfer . . . more
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October 10, 2006 10:37 PM EDT --
Google announced on Monday its decision to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock ("Google's young partner"). YouTube, founded only 19 months ago, has gained enormous popularity . . . more
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September 01, 2006 09:10 AM EDT --
ClipQuote: Tom Peters
"We are all Michelangelos."
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For a free high-resolution digital copy . . . more
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September 14, 2006 06:25 AM EDT --
ClipQuote: Arthur Miller
"The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress."
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September 15, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
ClipQuote: Paul Azinger
"Once you start thinking about a shot just messed up or what you have to do the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost."
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