Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross
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But the other choice was to do something radically different.
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross
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There's always room to do better. We're going to use these recommendations to make our agency even more effective.
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It is always beneficial to get an objective, third-party analysis to learn how this agency can become more efficient and effective. DCEO has already begun implementing corrective actions to improve our processes.
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By making these kinds of investments, we're making companies across Illinois more competitive. Because the business climate is so competitive, businesses have to be able to change and react.
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
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These are projects that preceded this administration, ... Many were partially paid. And we're (now) in a position to meet those commitments.
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Governor (Rod) Blagojevich is committed to working to reduce gas prices by supporting ethanol as a practical alternative. It's a cleaner burning, cheaper alternative (than gasoline) and creates jobs in Illinois.
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In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
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You can have two family members disrupt everything that's going on, but you can have 15 who are well behaved, and it's no problem at all.
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Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.
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The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.
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I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.
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As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.