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...Arroyo, renouncing her chance for a second term will allow her to tackle the country's mounting problems without the compromises and pressures that go with candidacy. She says the so-called People Power II revolution that installed her tore the nation apart, pitting her middle-class and business-sector supporters against the impoverished masses who preferred Estrada despite charges that his administration was corrupt. (Estrada remains in jail at the Philippine Veterans Hospital awaiting trial.) "Since I am among the principal figures in the divisive national events of the last two or three years," she said, "my political efforts...
Romney, who graduated from Harvard Business School in 1974, drew heavily on his private-sector experience in his speech, stressing the need for “a greater level of responsiveness to our citizens...
...their most nimble and inventive attackers,” he said. “It’s not terminal to be large. It is only terminal to be slow, unresponsive, arrogant, isolated, bureaucratic or unwilling to change. These are the same dynamics that we confront in the public sector...
...potential payday like that, why is Bayer getting out - and why have no suitors jumped in yet? That's the paradox across the drug industry: pharmaceutical companies are among the most profitable legal businesses in the world, and employ some 520,000 people in Europe. And yet the sector has been behaving lately as if it were in a sharp downturn. The battle for control of Bayer is just the latest in a series of corporate partnerships, mergers and hostile takeovers that have shaken up the drug industry in recent years. Why such an urge to merge? One reason...
...specialist based in Bellevue, Wash., they carried a list of 900 companies that were pursuing data-mining capabilities, says CEO Usama Fayyad. Through a nonprofit venture-capital fund that it finances, called In-Q-Tel, the CIA has invested in several data-mining companies that serve both the private sector...