The company's particular problem, says Gregory Church, chairman of Church Capital Management, is GE's conglomerate nature: The megalith is into everything from corporate lending to media to jet engines.

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Once again, he sees them smiling and then he sees them walking away down a street where yellow lights scatter and regroup sporadically, without any obvious pattern, although Henric knows deep down that everything is determined in some way, everything is causally linked to something else, and human nature leaves very little room for the truly gratuitous.

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Many ecologists now accept that prohibiting everything in the name of protecting nature is not useful, and so are being selective.

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As a parent and grandparent, I think it is important people know everything they can about the extremely violent nature of some of these games.

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The religious scholars he studied at Harvard, such as Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1878--1965), helped this devout Episcopalian articulate what is in essence a Buddhist worldview: Business is interdependent with everything around it, and hence it must tread lightly alongside nature, so both can remain healthy and sustain each other in the long run.

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Though it is human nature to put various banking and brokerage accounts into buckets, your net worth is calculated by totaling everything you own.

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