TwentyfirstAr Brand Name Twenty Zeros First Decade Crunch Trade Colloquium Consortium FTZR Chief Internet Officer Market Analyst 2005 Congratulations Number One Rank Chief Economist Half Way Into First Decade Twenty Zeros - David W. Berson is Fannie Mae's Vice President and Chief Economist. In this capacity, he is responsible for managing the Economics Department; forecasting and analyzing the economy, interest rates, and the housing and mortgage finance markets; as well as advising Fannie Mae's Chairman and Senior Management Team on finance, economic, tax, and housing policy issues. MBA Programs Getting Extreme Makeovers Wed April 20, By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special to USA TODAY (Yahoo! link) The master of business administration degree just isn't what it used to be, thanks to a reinventing of the way executives are trained at more than 50 business schools nationwide. "In high tech, the job description is essentially to serve as translator. You need to be able to speak their language, and if you can't, you won't be respected." At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., program director Gina O'Connor says engineers and other scientists appreciate the science-heavy campus as well as the new MBA curriculum. The University of Washington, which has become a launching pad for executives in Northwest-based companies such as Microsoft and Starbucks, condensed its core course requirement last fall and began allowing students to take elective courses in any department that suits their unique career path... ** Top 100 MBA Programes (Link Economist Intelligence Unit) Global Actionable Intelligence America March 22, 20 O5 - Web Blog Middle Markets I can recommend cash-back value stocks during the upward inflationary cycle. With continued editorials of national-level or local-global prediction, since nine eleven on federal interest rates policy, whether up or down, "decisive monitored display is" a conventional sustaining inflationary outlook suggestive of local-global economic growth. This centrist view will likely hold on until 2012! May 3, 20 O5 In view of "the rifle stock market" plainly seen on the street I'm of sense to note for everyone that pricing pressure in the marketplace is cause of slowing or softening economic growth in the U S and while obvious higher oil prices are the good portion of this citing one has to ask if oil fields in Iraq were guarded from outset of the war would their economy going on into new government there be strong and their business people in OPEC leading the bull (it's likely in that part of the global economy), but more particularly wouldn't ours be stronger not having to rebuild and rebuget fiscal capital, and not rather just be prey to now rhetorical and nervous forces at large let alone these insurgents who are only polarizing negative-local growth estimates in concert with "the reigning party in Washington?" A retreat is in order right now right here, because we know - AND SAY (the administration) "this wartime IS A wider war on terror" - which absolutely is true - and not just for Iraq and so I ask "if the terrorists don't need territory to fight over why especially do we?" How could we expect the markets to correct if this war isn't corrected and a simple correction at that. Whether or not now we in geopolitical efforts should relook daily at enemies of peace in our world, such as N. Korea's new nuclear testing/aggression in May of 2005 or Irans defiance to the world who is not a nuclear economy but threatens populations untold, and considering we have to brave hourly planetary fears reported all the time of nuclear war between neighboring hostilities like Pakistan/India or China/Tawain etc? We clearly have our pride going into the battlefield for us these days but it feels to me as a personal or party fight between Islamic leadership in the east with allies all crime bosses, mass murderers, extremist fundamentalists and thriving in America and including drug lords and plutocratics of the republican party or worse with some of their Christian or religious bias heralding unqualified prophetic agenda in this global culture crisis, to prop up their depraved war- making sides. Media posts resembling Armageddon without full inclusion of bona fide materialed documentations or authentic texts is nothing less than a(nother) secret (computer-enhanced high tech) war and not the heretofore approved by polling and court-of-public-opinion numbers preferring disarmamemt and if not a democratic process to go to war. The terror war with having some "shadow-war" events alongside "the actual war" for a purpose of covert victory, for the coalition isn't probable without major action to exit. June 25, 20 O5 - More than our need for hard assets to back America is overall awareness to back US UP by producing as many and much products and materials etc to supply Americans and the rest of the consuming world, in a unilateral export import environment and lastly, to balance out a steadily growing economy with the practices set above but without wasted build-ups as stockpiling which trends toward deflation but also abide so with little bilateral deficited counter-trade-related schemings under order and contracted partnerships regardless of varying opinions of supply and demand. Too rapid an increase of supply at the wrong time or, during a soft economy, can plainly spell out actual deflated price figure in the real market if even in a current-market cycle of such lowering price it incites consumer spending and confidence. Related Material Data Available Consumer Price Index Kudlow And Company Weekdays CNBC Razzle, dazzle, sparkle, and shine. Isn't this how we think all those stars get to the Oscars in the first place? However, it's less glitter, and more planning that creates the reality. First comes the dream, then the work, then usually a host of disappointments to test the resolve, then a series of small successes, and then....publicity. It is a fairly predictable road, but often as business people we forget to plan our own personal Oscar's night. We also miss the key ingredient - publicity. Marketing is what gets you in front of your target market to make the sale. Publicity is the spotlight that shines on you and solidifies you with mass appeal as the popular expert in your field. You drive marketing to your buyers. Publicity drives the masses of buyers to you. When your focus has been marketing it's a little tricky to change your paradigm to publicity. However, the important difference between marketing and publicity is your target audience. You are no longer pitching to buyers of your product or service, now your audience is the media. This means editors and producers. These important people are looking for one thing, the story. A unique story. Something inspirational, motivational, newsworthy, or educational. Period. Nothing else will do. In order to be successful in the media you have to think like a publicist and find your unique story. If you don't have a story, it's time to create one. What is unique about you or your business? Sometimes it's an attitude. Like the employer that regularly asked her employees what they didn't like about their jobs and then proceeded to shift responsibilities. It may be an event, like a charitable event that raises money for starving children but serves beans and rice at the gala event to demonstrate how it feels to be poor. It may be your wit, your way of thinking, what you care most about, or how you integrate your values into your business. Only, you can find it, but trust me, it's there. Begin to explore your own unique angles and media curves by keeping notes on your thoughts and attitudes. Scribble, color, or paint it out - it really doesn't matter as long as you begin to devote time to exploring your "story". Not your ad, not your price, not your product, but your story. Once you've angled into your own unique media offerings, find the appropriate avenues to make your pitch. Take care though, the media should always be treated with good will and respect. Do not, go for the hard sell. This is not the time. If you must, save the hard sell for marketing, or better yet, chuck it all together. Be a star with the mind of a publicist. See you at the Oscars! Topline Headlines "Corrupt Politics Awareness Campaign" Your help is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of twenty dollars per year per reader of the report is considered appropriate. Motion Picture "Sunata" A 21st Century Millennium Epoch Begin Productions My Business Is - "Professional Services" Type Of My Organization - "Web Business Publication" & "Personal Public Relations" My Expertise - "Commercial Art" Major Product Line - Entrepreneur Training/Web Designs/Hosting Send Email Online@LA.Com for Randy's personal one on one career launch method for immediate reply. You expand your horizon using email and your emails are valued. Enter Countdown at worlds leading millennium celebrations, parties and conference watch publication. 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Why don't you just briefly explain it to me. Thanks, Anita T. LA.Com Double Meanings In The English Language Answer The Riddle For Easy Title Of Our First Decade. Think Not Numbers Of 20 Circles or Zeros, Rather Twenty Zeros As A New Name Eighteen Examples of Double Meanings In The English Language At Name Decade Twenty Zeros Until recent without any community assistance on this project of our "Twenty Zeros" and also without any awareness proir to my pre-annoucement online dated July 25, 2000 at my website, about the question of "what to name the decade", facing scholars now awkwardly booking the new decade ahead by name, I was in gear titling a website the Twenty Zeros for a number of companion sites for the zeros which are described at the beginning of this page report. The title will come clearer with use experts say. Selecting a good name or title is research edit and production assigned priority and directed as my networks top story until Twenty Zeros is accepted for and by officials, as nearly final in a least repect, as the forum is which brings us to it and the effort and time involved. Only a month or so ago when this realization came to me about my title I thought with "Twenty Zeros" and because none other name was in use that I would instantly become a media pitchman. My account from the beginning can be viewed at Twenty Zeros. I should say on this topic that "there are 3 areas for us to resolve for the millennium viewers." First the notion of easy numbers like zero, one or two, is now posing a problem and is stressing us out somewhat naturally so because counting begins with one which includes "the numeral symbol of zero" (only two items so far) and together because we bog on the lack of a name with an alpha-numeric vernacular, for such increments here (such as a decades name) we somehow don't take importantly the intellectual need we have to implement. Counting when counting is, as such a tabulating of amounts of time as per say, from one date to another or to the next date from ordinal code is just remotely connected to the matter here then, as "Counting and Names are clearly unrelated" together rationally speaking. Third and for possibly a new beginning to solving the riddle presently bogging us, take the words widely included by authorities and pollsters and put the two together for a simple name and term like "Twenty Zeros". But for those who must associate numbers still with names I offer you this but only for entertainment; there ARE EXACTLY 20 zeros in our first decade which is the last connection I personally made with the title and only still see this account as coincidental. Count them yourself. Lastly, "Twenty Hundreds" which also were nominated is lexicographically correct as the title for our Twenty-First Century and not this first or any decade. More confusion which had to be sorted out was a poll finalist "the Tens" which were nominated as a name for this decade which off this list it must go now as it should and WILL undoubtedly be called (Twenty "Tens" or Teens) so in the next decade during years of 2011AD through 2020AD. Count 10 numbers from smybolic zero as 1 is 1, to get to 10 and then count 10 more numbers and you'll arive safely to the "Twenties". Come on now, you still don't get it do you? Can you hear some folks in 60 and/or 70 years from now saying "yeah, this is the decade of the "two thousand seventies". Honestly can you? Try "Twenty Seventies". Sounds much easier by a long stretch. I could stake my life on this, that "full run of a complete examination " on the name campaign of our "Twenty Zeros" will trip on a audible alarm before your trial is complete. There are too many indicators pointing there. I might also add to be careful not to write or convey Twenty Zeros as 20 zeros (or 0"s) as the problem still of it being a number and ONLY a number (and/or vice-versa) gets in the way. It's not yet a number let alone "a name" until it's appointed so by lexicographers or linguists, or Experts such as Britanicca or the IRS. July 07, 2003 The Economist Sees Bad News on the Supply Side As if the world economy needed another factor adding drag... Economist.com: MANY of those who advocated war in Iraq argued that it would be a relatively cheap exercise. After all, Iraq sits on the world’s second-biggest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia; even before the war, the country was thought to have a production capacity of 3m barrels per day (bpd). All the conquering coalition troops would have to do is fix up the creaking or damaged oil wells and refineries, and Iraq would soon start paying for itself. Unfortunately, things haven’t turned out that way. Thanks to some astute forward planning (and the advance deployment of special forces), there was very little wartime damage to Iraq's oil fields. Since the war, though, disgruntled supporters of Saddam Hussein have sabotaged oil fields and pipelines. So Iraq has yet to export any oil produced since the war, a state of affairs that has buoyed the oil price. Now a general strike in Nigeria, triggered by a jump in the cost of petrol, threatens that country’s 2m bpd output. Some oil experts now think the oil price, currently bobbing around the $30 mark, could climb as high as $35 if the strike, already in its second week, continues. None of this is good news for the fragile world economy. Point At George Once and Clic Smart Tip Inside!