Results for “World Bank Group”

…ave been able to cross the border and enter Syria. One of the leading armed groups, Al-Nusra Front, an affiliate of the world’s largest terrorist organizations Al-Qaeda, has been included by the US in the international terrorism blacklist. It is important to note that these rebel...

… to have a mea- surable effect and a biology we under- stand,” Wayne Jonas told me. Jonas is an interesting hybrid in a world often sharply divided between conventional and alternative therapies. In the early nineties, he served as the director of the Medical Research Fellowship...

…nomist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and...

/ BARAK / 143 were a regional superpower, with a military as effective as any in the world, and a high-tech economic sector justifiably compared to Silicon Valley. Every few weeks, Bibi, Lieberman and I would meet for a wide-ranging discussion on the patio of the Prime Minister...

…. It took a shotgun approach, targeting Israeli diplomatic missions in a variety of countries, mostly in the developing world where the global antiterrorism mesh is not so fine. Exposed in Baku, Tbilisi, Johannesburg, Mombasa and Bangkok, the failures mounted at a pace that was i...

…or his secrecy as for his love of fine things: mag- nificent homes, private jets, beautiful women, friendships with the world's elite. But at Palm Beach police headquarters, he was be- coming known for something else: the regular arrival of teenage girls he hired to give him mass...

… when a rape has occurred. A cleaning woman in a fancy New York hotel accused Dominic Strauss-Kahn—then the head of the World Bank—of forcing her to have oral sex with him. His lawyers first denied that there had been any encounter, claiming that he had an alibi. He was having lu...

…auterbach, 91. Last survivor of a quintet of U.S. women, who in 1945 founded the Air Line Stewardesses Association, the world’s first union for flight attendants. Died Feb. 4. George Frazer, 86. Chairman of Toronto-based Leon Frazer & Associates, who invested in companies with h...

…ys and Thunderbirds, overpriced miniature jukeboxes that play "Rock Around the Clock," anything reminiscent of the 1955 world champion Brooklyn Dodgers (a redundancy to any aficionado, because there are no other world champion Brooklyn Dodgers). I rush to see any Woody Allen fil...

…plain to us how to get out of the current crisis? The impact of the global financial crisis has been felt all over the world. It generated a state of panic in all developed economies. It was expected that our region would not be immune to the crisis, especially in view of the fa...

… our turbulent times, join us for an evening Shiller predicts bubbles, busts and other of insight and analysis from the world’s pre- financial crises years before anyone else. eminent economist — Nobel laureate and Find out how — and be the first to discover former Chief Economis...

Died Jan. 2 of a heart attack on his first day of retirement. Fred Turner, 80. As CEO at McDonald’s Corp., now the world’s largest restaurant company, he introduced Chicken McNuggets, the Egg McMuffin and Happy Meals. Died Jan. 7 of complications from pneumonia. Ada Louise Huxt...

… (he is, beyond the joke, a great Nobokov fan). Or, in a more sophisticated view, it’s a two tier understanding of the world. There is a media version of the world, in which most of us live and largely accept, and are certainly influenced by. And then there are those people who...

…x that is border adjusted, and fix corporate tax rate. This will not only boost US economy, but will give a jolt to the world economy as well. 3) Positive that there is a solution, reform momentum on tax is strong regardless of political affiliation. There is a road out of the q...

… Sinai, Libya ... this thing is bad... . That’s why Russia is so key... . Is Russia that bad? They’re bad guys. But the world is full of bad guys.” Bannon offered all this with something like ebullience—a man remaking the world. “But it’s good to know the bad guys are the bad g...