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...tough to imagine the CEO of a lean, mean operation falling for that one five years ago. It's tougher still to imagine that it would work, as a lot of CEOs apparently now do. Major businesses like Pfizer, American Express and Southwest Airlines, along with much smaller outfits, are laying out more than $55.3 billion annually--almost twice what they spent in the mid-1980s--on training. And the hottest new training device is the offsite, a company- or department-wide session away from the office. But today's offsite isn't a few meetings in a windowless hotel...
Last year, when I made my first online purchase, the UPS yen resurfaced. By then the Internet had emerged as a retailing force. I even recommend buying shares of FDX Corp., parent of delivery company Federal Express, as an indirect play on the growth of online shopping. I still believe FedEx is a great stock. But it was the UPS man who had delivered my package. If only...
Iran?s reform movement may have taken an eight-count, but it could still win on points. Though student protesters have been driven back onto campus to pursue "legal and democratic" channels to express their grievances, the reform program of President Mohammed Khatami ? which the students wholeheartedly, if impatiently, support -- remains the key threat to the power of the mullahs. For political and economic reasons, they can?t afford to completely close down the troublesome reformer...
...politics, it's not smart to seem too smart. Bill Clinton uses his intellect to dazzle audiences, but he does it in an inclusive way. He articulates things people know but can't quite express. Hillary sometimes can't help intimidating them. At a senior citizens' center in Utica, a teacher told her that the school district's resources for disabled students are spread too thin because of a federal decree that disabled students be mainstreamed, not put in special schools. Hillary corrected her. They can be mainstreamed, she said, but still concentrated in specific schools, "so you have...
...sponsoring legislation to restore the cuts; Senator Chuck Schumer and Dennis Rivera, New York's hospital workers' union chief and a key Hillary supporter, recently arranged a White House meeting to discuss them. Hillary attended and voiced support for New York's cause, but has since declined to express anything more than "concern" over the issue...