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Gates gets an egg on his face at Brussels
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates got a face full of custard pie during his visit to Brussels. The attack took place as Gates, fresh from a visit with world and business leaders in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, was about to attend reception given by the Belgian Flemish community.
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Real rate of return for investors not so bad
Some recent debt issues have shown hardening of interest rates of late. Even if these rates remain at current levels for some time, they have significant implications for individual investors. This has meant that the real rates of returns to investors have not declined as much as the declining rates of interests seem to suggest. In fact, the real rates of return might have gone up.
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The Three spheres of success of a manager
"We need leadership, not just brains," says Roderick Wilkinson, fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management, UK. He goes on to give examples of what he means by this. "For instance, it was a Briton, Alexander Fleming, who developed penicillin. But it was business leadership that developed it commercially in the US. It was a Scotsman named Baird who invented the television; but it was leadership in Italy, USA, and Japan that developed it beyond far greater bounds than Britain found possible."
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Liposuction is no cure for obesity
It's ironical. Obese people who need fat shedding the most don't lend themselves safely to liposuction. The localised removal of isolated deposits of fat further strains their already overburdened cardio-vascular and respiratory systems. Similarly, it can't cure bulimia, beautify skin imperfections, camouflage spider veins or strengthen skin elasticity.
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