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...chain-smoking Canadian Italian has used Apple as a model, focusing on the way Steve Jobs transformed it from an also-ran computer company into a global icon of cool. He encourages Fiat managers to take a close look at Apple's branding prowess and even asks them to benchmark their activities against the company. His biggest success at Fiat is the 500 - a tiny, very cool 21st century version of a 52-year-old Italian icon once driven by movie stars such as Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren - which Marchionne calls "our iPod." (See pictures of cars...
...more transparent. "The public plan will teach the country what this stuff actually costs," says Len Nichols, director of the New America Foundation's Health Policy Program and co-author of a March 2009 proposal for a public-plan option. Nichols says a public plan could provide a "credible benchmark" that consumers could use to measure whether private insurers are offering fair rates...
...Baltic Dry Index is the worldwide benchmark for shipping rates of raw materials, and it has registered some eye-popping gains over the past month. The London-based index registered its 23rd straight daily gain on Wednesday, closing at 4,291, its highest mark since September and the longest streak of gains since July 2006. Daily rates for the largest Capesize ships, which typically carry iron ore, rose 6.8% on Wednesday to $93,197. Just five months ago, daily ship-rental rates were hovering just above $2,000, about the price of a great seat on opening...
...guilt before the Ad Board.Right now, no formal threshold exists by which the board should decide whether or not a student should be punished. Next year, the board will have to be “sufficiently persuaded” of guilt in order to exact penalties, Sundquist said.Such a benchmark was much sought after by those unhappy with current Ad Board policy.“It was my impression,” Losick said about the current standard, “that in practice it was often ‘more likely than...
France: The benchmark system is neither truly socialized nor fully equal...