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...compact man who drew on ancient jujitsu styles and began perfecting his art in pre-World War II Japan. It's claimed he once pinned a famous sumo wrestler to the ground using just one finger. While that may be something of a fable, it neatly illustrates aikido's core philosophy?overcoming opponents without doing them dire physical harm. As an added benefit, aikido is also effective training for strength, flexibility and posture. Today, dozens of schools, called dojo, continue Ueshiba's teachings throughout Japan. If you're planning to spend any length of time in the country...
...market. It is merging with Russia's seventh largest oil company, state-owned Rosneft, and Alexei Miller, Gazprom's chief executive, has signaled his interest in another oil producer, Zarubezhneft. Most dramatically, Gazprom has emerged as the best-positioned candidate to acquire the company that forms the core of Yukos--a Siberia-based corporation called Yugansk Oil & Gas--if the government auctions it off. Yukos says a forced sale of Yugansk, which reportedly may be priced way below market value, would violate Russian statutes that stipulate that noncore assets be sold first in the event of tax claims. "This...
...value declines) will be some $300 million. Lego is being battered from all sides. Today's children increasingly prefer Xboxes to plastic blocks; sales in Japan and the U.S. have been unexpectedly sluggish; and the company suffers from overcapacity in a low-growth industry. Trying to refocus on its core business, the 72-year-old company is even considering selling such assets as the Legoland parks. CEO Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of Lego's founder, has had enough. He is handing the reins to Knudstorp, 35, a business economics Ph.D. who has been with Lego for only three years...
...dairy and other companies in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Hungary and the U.S. "It was a reversal of logic," says Vito Zincani, the chief investigating magistrate in Parma. Usually, companies take on debt to grow. But in Parmalat's case, "they had to grow to hide the debt." The core of the fraud was a system of double billing to Italian supermarkets and other retail customers. Simply put, by billing twice for the same shipment of merchandise, Parmalat could create the impression that its accounts receivable were much larger than they really were. One of the Parmalat executives who operated...
Summers declined to comment on his involvement in the committee, saying only that he hoped for the group to further develop a system that could effectively replace the Core...