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OFFHAND
Barbarism in Iraq
PHOTOGRAPHS of horrible torture inflicted by the units of the US Army on Iraqi prisoners detained in the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, and the accompanying heart-rending descriptions, have left the people of the ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Negative sentiment pervades all corners
The weekend news that Shell would shift some 2,800 IT jobs to Wipro and IBM in India may have short-term positive for the tech stocks. But, joining of 10 screwdriver economies in EU is likely to prove a distant threat for the emerging outsourcing ma rkets in India and China.
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
MIPs — rough road ahead?
Any critical change in the market's perception can have an adverse impact on inflows into these schemes.
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ADR WATCH
Bear mauling spares none
THE Nasdaq witnessed its steepest fall in two years on concern that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index and Nasdaq fell for a third week in four. S&P 500 dropped 2.9 per cent to 1107.30, erasing i
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VISION 2020
PURA: Emulating the Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs did not locate their businesses in cities but in villages. They used the higher purchasing power of money in the rural areas as a form of capital. Indian entrepreneurs do not locate their businesses in the rural areas the way their American counterparts did. So far, they may have been justified. But a change in their mindset is necessary to make them realise that PURA gives then an option to emulate the Americans, says P. V. Indiresan.
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SAY CHEEK
Fraud becoming a team sport
In almost one in two cases, there were up to five players. Lone rangers are a minority.
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
The other side of one-side
COST-CUTTING at workplace takes various forms, ranging from deferred increments to downsizing. If you were to ask experts, they would advise you to manage costs, rather than cut, because the latter can be more expensive in the long run, though ...
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RANDOM WALK
Nursing a dream job
THIS paper quoted the US Department of Health and Human Services as saying recently that an estimated 2.8 million nurses will be needed in 2020. The US is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and ...
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MARK TO MARKET
Options for the week
SEBI is considering a proposal to allow the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to introduce weekly-settled equity derivatives. The introduction of such short-term instruments may have a positive feedback on the ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
Short-term pressures on management
A FUNDAMENTAL question that strategy deals with concerns the decisions and actions that a firm must undertake to ensure desired long-term performance. The decisions need to be taken today but the results may only be ...
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