Things and Such
Things and Such
by LimeCatmy business and headline news
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May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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Time to dump 007? AN ADDICTION to short-term financial results was one of the flaws in American capitalism that Sony’s co-founder, Akio Morita, used to bewail. (That was back in the...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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WHEN a power cut interrupted this year’s Super Bowl, advertisers lit up. "Sending some LEDs to the @MBUSA Superdome right now," tweeted Audi, swiftly plugging its own LED-accented...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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Side-effects: a craving for human flesh DILBERT, a cartoon character, once strapped a barrel-sized mug of coffee to his back to keep himself alert. Americans who dislike coffee have...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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SAINT GORAN’S hospital is one of the glories of the Swedish welfare state. It is also a laboratory for applying business principles to the public sector. The hospital is run by a...
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AFTER a Soviet missile shot down a South Korean airliner that strayed into Russian airspace in 1983, President Ronald Reagan made America’s military satellite-navigation system, GPS,...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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If you think breaking rocks is hard, try fighting corruption THE business climate in Congo "is disgusting", says an adviser to the government in Kinshasa. Any casual visitor has...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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In a table last week ("To the brainy, the spoils", May 11th) we said that the Boston Consulting Group has 6,200 employees. In fact it has around 9,000 employees, of whom...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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The drill from Ipanema AFTER five dry years, Brazil’s oil-and-gas concession pipeline is flowing once more. On May 14th the national regulator, ANP, successfully auctioned 142 blocks...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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HUAWEI, a Chinese maker of telecoms equipment, has found Europe, by and large, a welcoming sort of place. Gartner, a research firm, estimates that last year it doubled its share of the...
May 16, 2013 11:09 am EST
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The Economist: Business
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WRITE-OFFS of goodwill are confusing. When they happen, companies insist they do not matter. Goodwill is the excess paid for an asset over its book value. Writing it down is a mere...
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