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...Laden but with Mirza Ali Khan, a Pashtun holy man who revolted against the British in the late 1930s. For nearly a decade, the British army chased him and his followers through the remotest reaches of Waziristan and the Northwest Frontier Province-the same ground where allied troops have spent the past five years searching fruitlessly for bin Laden, and where the remnants of Afghanistan's Taliban fled to lick their wounds and recover their strength. The region was then, as it is today, a powder keg of fractious tribes and fundamentalist firebrands, and Britain's experience with trying...
...crisis, companies pay consultants anywhere from $50,000 and up, depending on how long and how many people are deployed. A precrisis preparation session costs at least $25,000. Still, says Dezenhall, who has represented such companies as Procter & Gamble, ExxonMobil, Eli Lilly and GE, "the amount of money spent on crisis management is a drop in the bucket compared to what you might lose." Corporations routinely analyze how political risk or interest-rate risk might affect their bottom line. Argenti says the "reputational risk" of handling a crisis poorly should be part of the equation...
MILITARY $16,000 Estimated cost to the U.S. military per new recruit--spent on bonuses and expenses such as advertising, college funds and other incentive programs...
...once wrote the lyrics of his favorite Collective Soul song, Shine, on the walls of his dorm room. But usually there were no decorations, no posters, no friends, no hobbies beyond the occasional late-night bike ride and hours spent downloading music...
...need of hospitalization, and presents an eminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness, or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment." The amount of time Cho spent at the hospital remains a mystery...