"I almost walked away from the deal, but he convinced me in a small Japanese restaurant in San Francisco with a glass of sake, " he says.
For professionals (like me) who deal in reputation preservation and enhancement, the challenge is to reaffirm the critical value of that work even as the intensity of public reactions subsides during a period of scandal-exhaustion.
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He filled me in on the strategy behind your deal, and convinced me that it really puts Salesforce.com into a more powerful position with chief marketing officers.
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My years at the SEC and in the mutual fund industry has required me to spend a great deal of time studying loopholes in the Act which, if eliminated, would enhance investor protection but which the industry has long opposed closing.
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"The fiscal cliff deal will make me spend more time working in the business rather than on the business, " he says.
Travelling around the world while day trading has taught me a great deal about myself and life in general.
What interests me a great deal more is the way in which we seem to be judging Google.
So I learned how to focus on the person that's right in front of me and deal with them and just see them one by one by one.
The amalgamation of the single gender schools in my case, did present me with additional social pressures that I had previously not had to deal with in secondary education.
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Let me tell you how I deal with aspects of progress that are personally distasteful to me: I do not participate in them.
My previous conversations with a bunch of psychologists like me was a great deal easier than the conversations in Dubai.
That proved to be a flop (even back in the day, our correspondent related to me how difficult the acquirer was to deal with) which Fosters, with all due awareness, compounded in swallowing Southcorp in 2005.
And once I realized that, I thought, 'deal me out, I don't want to play in this game.
"It is good to see that the club have shown faith in me by offering me this new deal, " he told the club's website.
They called me into the office and said they have a deal in place.
Having to deal with a spigot of information reminds me of trying to find a tool in a crowded garage.
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All in all, it's a pretty exciting deal, so if Mike and George are up for it, count me in.
Mr. MINTZER: It worries me a great deal, because, first of all, the regimes in the areas that have the capability to expand production to this level are not all friendly to United States.
Many years ago my company invested heavily in my MBA, and it always meant a great deal to me.
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Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta.
And now, though I was not up in the apple tree, I had found various salients in our half acre that allowed me to see a good deal of her at night, when she went to bed.
This was compounded back in 2008 when I went through a divorce leaving me to deal with an enormous home loan, spiraling debt , shared care of my two little boys, and a struggling business with outgoings vastly exceeding incomings!
"I wanted to make sure that he knew from the very beginning that my country meant a great deal to me and should the necessity arise for me to go back to live in Burma, he must never try to stand between my country and me, " she says.
Coming out of it, the President told me that all -- everyone in the room believes that a significant deal remains possible.
And the deal, by the way, was structured in such a way as they gave me 35 percent potentially of something that at the time was worth absolutely nothing.
Our diversified businesses in 53 countries and their synergies give me and my colleagues a great deal of confidence.
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Chanos told me this morning that in early 2011, months before the HP-Autonomy deal, Autonomy was his biggest European short.
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In the past year 425 me-too companies have flooded the daily-deal marketplace.
For me, they rang the bell in early December when the IMF cobbled together a deal to bail out South Korea.
So tell me your thoughts: Are touchscreen phones a bad deal for active people who frequently find themselves in situations that could lead to bodily harm?
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