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New hotel opens.(PUERTO RICO)
Caribbean Update; 1/1/2010; 413 words; ...property has 222 rooms with 20 suites, three restaurants, a pastry shop, and more than 15,000 sq ft of meeting and banquet space, said Ricky Newman, general manager. Details: Media: Amanda Keefer, Ypartnership, Email: amanda.keefer@ypartnership...

The speed-up king: in 1940, a Danish machinist helped jump-start America's transformation from carmaker to weapons giant.(president of General Motors, William S. Knudsen)(Essay)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 4244 words; ...each, pursuit planes $133,000, and medium tanks $46,000. More important, although...immigrant who had worked his way from the shop floor to the executive suite--was reviewing...mechanic who had, by 1916, advanced from the shop floor of a bicycle importer in Denmark...

Less secure, yet more confident ; Consumer spending in India has surpassed records by a mile this decade. As a younger, more confident India hits its stride, watch out for that needle move really fast.
Business Today; 12/27/2009; 1181 words; ...pervasive reach of mobile phones and electronic media. Author Gurcharan Das, a former Chief...with a 14-year-old working in a tea shop. Raju, Das says, was learning computers...disposable income. Gaurav Mishra, a social media and analytics expert, for instance, spent...

Shoppers ignore recession as Boxing Day sales skyrocket
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 714 words; ...fact that retail is still difficult, so shops are battling to get customers, and the...the five-day sales. We have got more shops starting their sales today than ever before...bargains; the industry body Interactive Media in Retail Group estimated that shoppers...

Less secure, yet more confident.
Business Today More (New Delhi, India); 12/27/2009; 1280 words; ...pervasive reach of mobile phones and electronic media. Author Gurcharan Das, a former Chief...with a 14-year-old working in a tea shop. Raju, Das says, was learning computers...disposable income. Gaurav Mishra, a social media and analytics expert, for instance, spent...