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...successors - among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot - created the first airline, first motor company, first bank and first chemical plant. But after independence in 1947, the group came to symbolize all that was bad about Indian business. It lost its airline and insurance arm to nationalization. To avoid giving up more to the Congress Party socialists who ruled India for a half-century, J.R.D. Tata, a distant cousin of Ratan Tata, emphasized individual companies over the group, keeping the conglomerate's stakes small and demanding little coordination. Meanwhile, shielded from competition by the restrictive bureaucracy of the "license...
Unbeknownst to the specialists, Binckley had been spending every waking moment obsessing about food, her weight and ways to avoid eating. At times she consumed only 300 to 500 calories a day. She exercised compulsively, waking at 4 a.m. to take three-hour walks near her home in suburban Philadelphia. All that behavior is typical of patients with the eating disorder anorexia. But her doctors missed the symptoms because, she says, none of them had ever asked Binckley about her diet and lifestyle...
...There's nothing new about converting from term to universal life, which adds a savings component. But Blumenthal then sold the larger policy to investors, who paid all related costs and in time will collect the death benefit. Says Blumenthal, who was ready to ditch the term policy to avoid further premiums but ended up sticking $20,000 in his pocket instead: "I have nothing but kudos to say about the whole process...
...founder of Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit organization with projects in the U.S., Latin America, and Russia, said that although the success of projects like those he runs are dependent on the commitment of governments to providing basic health rights, Partners in Health would not necessarily avoid getting involved in countries where the regime is unwelcoming...
...Kitovitz started rowing at school in England, in order to “avoid cricket” and “get stronger and fitter for rugby,” but Stegmaier, from the plains of Iowa, is a rather more surprising oarsman...