Popescu believes that pitting the interests of Boomers against Millennials is just a dodge for bad management.

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Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu will go to Rome to discuss the situation with his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi.

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Roxana Popescu, our other Gen-Y blogger who this year earned her doctoral degree in literature from Harvard is a working journalist.

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Inspired to ask for something on a daily basis, Popescu shows us all the everyday ways we can strengthen our asking muscles.

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Hagi is indisputably world class, but he has 34-years-old legs, and Popescu - his brother-in-law - and Petrescu are just two years younger.

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But how can a team with the likes of Gheorghe Hagi, Adrian Ilie, Gheorghe Popescu, Dan Petrescu and Viorel Moldovan in its ranks be discounted?

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Ms Kocabiyikoglu, of Bilkent University in Turkey, and Ms Popescu, of INSEAD, address the problem of how to motivate managers to work harder by adjusting their pay.

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According to Popescu, the stereotype that Millennials are greedy whiners unwilling to pay their dues is a misconstruction of the circumstances into which the generation was born and a misapprehension of the challenges they face.

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He may also have been persuaded not to short-circuit the constitutional procedure by the promise of the prime minister, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, that parliament would seek to prevent Mr Basescu from contesting a presidential election in these circumstances.

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