The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 20, 2006

OFFHAND
Speeding up security clearances
The US Ambassador to India, Mr David Mulford, has publicly expressed concern over the `unwelcoming' attitude towards American Fulbright scholars wanting to do research on various projects in India, and towards ... More

IMPRESSIONS
Man can be irrational
Ever since the times of Adam Smith, economists have been explaining economic phenomena and propounding various theories, assuming, sometimes firmly believing, that `man is rational'. As time passed, both ... More

WIDE CANVAS
EU `support' should be tested
The recent visit by the EU Trade Commissioner, Mr Peter Mandelson, to Delhi promises to be successful considering all the talk about a regional trading arrangement between New Delhi and Brussels and the tons of mutual benefits that await the two ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW
Volatile condition may prevail at Dalal Street
Fundamentally strong from small-cap space may shine More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Read the risk profile of funds before investing
Stretched valuations of Indian equities More

SAY CHEEK
Is there any place for losers in this world?
What's better: To work for a bad boss at a good company, or a good boss at a weak company? That may be a tough question for many, but not to Jack and Suzy Welch. "To us this is an absolute no-brainer," they write in `Winning: The Answers,' from ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
IPO isn't just IP plus oh!
Count yourself among the blissful majority if you don't know how EBIT is different from BIT, or vaguely wonder if IPO is simply IP plus oh! A recent article of interest for those suffering from abbreviation-itis or jargon-o-phobia is `Acronyms ... More

RANDOM WALK
Nursing a dream
Hundreds of women from Kerala have emigrated all over the world to work as nurses. However, there is a darker side to this success story. More

CHAT
Market getting into correction mode
Khan was tracking CNN for the latest on the warfront, but Jogin was scouring CSN's site to know more about the Brazilian company now challenging Tata. Dakshinamoorthy was looking for logic in Volkswagen's announcements chronologically... Till ... More

EUROSCAPE
Love thy European neighbour
A brief rules of engagement with your neighbours should you end up living in Germany More

JOTTINGS
A return to freedom
The life of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman of the world famous Chicago school, who died the other day at the ripe age of 94, was typical of the Great American Dream. Born to immigrant working class Jewish parents who fled Europe during the period ... More

PEOPLE WISE
Trivialisation of employee engagement
There is more than enough empirical evidence to suggest that we live in a world filled with an increasing number of disengaged employees. More

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