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...August. She may have been the first national leader to address the world as "a woman and a mother," but she could be ruthless: her hamhanded suppression of a Marxist insurrection in 1971 resulted in 20,000 casualties. Bandaranaike had a heart attack in a car on her way home from voting in the elections won by the party led by her daughter, President Chandrika Kumaratunga...
...worried, however, that open-plan offices are about to go the way of the cherrywood executive corridor. Despite the many drawbacks, no one is predicting the concept's imminent demise. The cost of real estate is just too high, and open plans are cheaper space at higher density. The challenge that open space--in fact, any space--must confront is that "work is changing more rapidly than the environment," says Judith Heerwagen, an environmental psychologist in Seattle, "and we have to catch up and understand it better...
...that region, which nation needs what technology and which country can provide it," Dichter says. After a business-to-business match is made, TFTP prepares contracts and monitors the transfer of production technology. "These are countries where the notion of business as we know it is not the way of life," Dichter says. "But they want to save money and make a profit like any Western company...
...agree. "David sees to it that there are no communication gaps," says longtime business associate Sunil Gambers, director of Sunil Gambers Laboratories in Bombay, a company Dichter matched up with Vita Laboratories in the Republic of Georgia for an herbal-medicine venture. "He will go out of his way to see to it that a project he has undertaken gets positive results...
...kept her cards, so to speak, close to her vest. She has bypassed defense motions to toss the case, yet her pointed questions to the plaintiff sometimes mimic remarks by its critics--for example, that banks are already lining up behind individual brands. "If the market is going that way anyway, why do you want me to do anything?" she asked U.S. attorney Melvin Schwarz. To prevent a return to duality, he said. That might or might not happen, but as a former card executive puts it, "this is definitely a case where everyone's a little guilty...