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    Jun 3, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Diligent attention to detail paying off at online travel agency

    Just after finishing college in England, Barney Harford was a finalist for a job at Mars Inc., which makes chocolate bars and other food products.
    Just after finishing college in England, Barney Harford was a finalist for a job at Mars Inc., which makes chocolate bars and other food products. "Ultimately, they said, 'You were close, but we decided not to offer you a job,'" Harford recalled. "'...

    Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Consumers, England, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Hotels

    2. May 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Rosenthal: China too big to be ignored

    A free trade agreement between the United States and China? Really? How would that work? We give them our intellectual property and they give us their political dissidents?
    A free trade agreement between the United States and China? Really? How would that work? We give them our intellectual property and they give us their political dissidents? Loosening restrictions on trade and investment between the two justifiably...

    Tags: Henry Kissinger, Bill Daley, Kentucky Fried Chicken, PepsiCo Inc., USG Corporation

    3. Apr 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Tom Pritzker woos big names for U. of C.'s big data

    University of Chicago computer scientist <strong>Ian Foster</strong> pressed the clicker and up popped a map of the most sophisticated fiber-optic networks in the world.
    University of Chicago computer scientist Ian Foster pressed the clicker and up popped a map of the most sophisticated fiber-optic networks in the world. On that map, at least, Chicago appeared to be the center of everything, a crossroads of...

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, American Airlines, Inc., PNC Financial Services Group Incorporated, Federal Reserve, Rahm Emanuel

    4. Apr 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance

    Nobel Prize winner <strong>Gary Becker </strong>could never win an election in this town.
    Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...

    Tags: Charter Schools, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards, Discrimination, Education

    5. Mar 17, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. What we learned in Iraq

    Ten years ago this week, Americans were about to be introduced to a strange new concept, as they awaited the U.S. war to bring regime change in Iraq. Coined by American military officers, it encapsulated a situation in which everything went right until everything went wrong. The term was &quot;catastrophic success."
    Ten years ago this week, Americans were about to be introduced to a strange new concept, as they awaited the U.S. war to bring regime change in Iraq. Coined by American military officers, it encapsulated a situation in which everything went right until...

    Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions

    6. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| RedEye

  6. Krugman Speaks at the Chicago Council

    I had the pleasure of watching Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs this past week, which I will partially remember for his edifying remarks on the state of the economy and partially for the an argument I had with a man about a book flap.
    I had the pleasure of watching Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs this past week, which I will partially remember for his edifying remarks on the state of the economy...

    Tags: National Basketball Association, Barack Obama, Nobel Prize Awards, NBA Development League, Ecosystems

    7. Feb 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Harris: U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder to head Chicago Council on Global Affairs

    <strong>Ivo Daalder</strong>, U.S. ambassador to NATO and a national security expert, will become president of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs effective July 1.
    Ivo Daalder, U.S. ambassador to NATO and a national security expert, will become president of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs effective July 1. Daalder, 52, is succeeding Marshall Bouton, who served in the post for 12 years. "As a thought...

    Tags: Business, Google Inc., NATO, Bill Clinton, Arlington Park

    8. Oct 16, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Survey paints picture of war-weary America

    The addition of foreign policy questions to the mix in Tuesday's presidential debate gives Mitt Romney a chance to convince voters that his views of world affairs align with their own, but a recent authoritative survey of public attitudes illustrates what a challenge that might be.
    The addition of foreign policy questions to the mix in Tuesday's presidential debate gives Mitt Romney a chance to convince voters that his views of world affairs align with their own, but a recent authoritative survey of public attitudes illustrates what...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Defense Equipment, Iran's Nuclear Program, Defense, Armed Forces

    9. Oct 29, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Head of Clean Energy Trust working to change world

    Amy Francetic was at a child's birthday party in 2004 when she decided it was time to leave Silicon Valley.
    Tribune staff reporter
    Amy Francetic was at a child's birthday party in 2004 when she decided it was time to leave Silicon Valley.    "I was sitting there listening to 6-year-olds talk about IPOs and whose house was bigger and how much a wedding dress cost," she said.    By...

    Tags: Medical Specialization, Redbox, Religion and Belief, Tesla Motors, Inc., Air Transportation Industry

    10. Oct 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Grant Thornton CEO spreading word about firm's Chicago roots

    He was born in England, spent a significant part of his career in Asia and cut his American corporate teeth in Dallas. But Stephen Chipman, now into his third year as chief executive of Grant Thornton LLP, is thinking a lot about Chicago.
    Special to the Tribune
    He was born in England, spent a significant part of his career in Asia and cut his American corporate teeth in Dallas. But Stephen Chipman, now into his third year as chief executive of Grant Thornton LLP, is thinking a lot about Chicago.   ...

    Tags: Business, Companies and Corporations, Ravinia Festival, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, England

    11. Dec 7, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  11. 'Santa's mosque'

    Change of Subject
    Under the above subject heading my former colleague Richard Longworth, now a Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, writes in an email: I was struck by the festive Christmas illumination now lighting the dome of the top......
    12. Oct 8, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. More Americans want to cut aid to Egypt after embassy attack

    World Now
    Nearly three out of four Americans surveyed think the United States should reduce its aid to Egypt or cut it off entirely after angry protesters pulled down the American flag at its Cairo embassy last month. The Program on International Policy Attitudes...
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