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He and his fellow performers were forever at the mercy of unscrupulous managers, forced to live in crummy lodgings where they ate poorly, in towns where they were generally regarded as no better than tramps and whores by the disapproving townsfolk.
It was not unheard of for those unscrupulous managers to abscond with the box office receipts, stranding the actors in hostile territory without a penny.
Sports movies, especially boxing movies, have very little to say beyond, "Look how much punishment I can take and look how big a dope I am for even stepping in the ring!" "Body and Soul" has all the common clichés that one would expect from a rope-a-dope film: 1) the boxer with a low I.Q; 2) the disapproving mother; 3) the smart girlfriend that likes the boxer for God-knows-whatever reasons; 4) the crooked boxing promoter; 5) the death of a fighter that should know better; 6) athletes knowingly submitting to a crooked system; 7) managers manipulating fighters for their own benefit.
A radio singer on vacation in Las Vegas attempts to escape her swarming managers by hitching a ride in a guy's car; turns out he's a reporter for the Los Angeles Bulletin, and he thinks she's an escaped murderess.
Her managers are played by Robert Williams and Ray Walker.
Do Managers simply have sex with staff so easily ?!
This film is another dark, gloomy boxing story that's populated with unsavory characters, crooked managers and losers.
As such, it may not come off as surprising that he chose for his next story to look back upon his rough past, which partly consisted of humiliating treatment from managers, lousy payment, and less than average living conditions.
It's been nothing but trouble lately, for the two managers of the Lotus Cat Food Co.
There are even instances in which two managers will contrive to hire each other’s relatives to evade nepotism charges.
These funds’ managers rightly complain that insufficient investment opportunities exist in the region in agriculture and manufacturing.
For example, households and investment managers, reluctant to keep money in safe money-market funds, instead seek to invest in securities with longer maturities and higher credit risk, so long as they offer extra yield.
Making matters worse, when the current stock-market correction began in early June, Chinese regulators relaxed margin-buying restrictions, while encouraging state-owned enterprises and asset managers to purchase more stocks.
Fund managers who are under constant pressure to post profits or defend short-term results cannot afford to invest with entrepreneurs building businesses that are optimized for the next ten years, rather than for the next quarter.
Portfolio managers take on risk when they “change horses,” reallocating from a company they know well to a new investment.
In China, I have organized a group of equity investors to share ideas and insights about fundamental investing, and I help start-up fund managers who share a long-term philosophy get their businesses off the ground.
Such rescues, in short, appear to help big companies with bad managers.
Critics of state capitalism have always pointed out the risk of government capture by such companies’ managers, which is exactly what has happened in Russia, where the state-owned companies have grown so large that it is difficult to distinguish between them and the state itself.
The approach is two-pronged: the government is privatizing some SOEs, so that market competition can check the behavior of corporate managers, while treating the managers of other (typically larger) SOEs as public servants, subject to the increasingly severe rules of public accountability, including party discipline.
Stalinist purges in Russia left no independent institutions to stop the depredations of corrupt officials, managers, and the state.
Solidarity unionists, even if they often opposed many specific policy proposals, stopped firm managers from stealing assets; and the Church provided a force with which all governments to reckon.
Volkswagen managers received huge bonuses this year, despite the global scandal caused by the company’s years-long effort to evade emissions standards.
The main reason might be the poor fortunes of social-democratic parties, which now head only eight governments in the EU, despite their efforts since 2000 to minimize their waning influence within their traditional electorate – blue-collar workers and white-collar public-sector employees, middle managers, and civil servants.
But if the asset managers pay full book value for those loans, they will incur losses, and the government will have to foot the bill.
Even if the asset pool declines in value, the fund’s managers keep the value of each share at $1.00 by rounding upward the fund’s real value.
There are inherent conflicts of interest: owners and managers have a natural incentive to present a picture as rosy as possible.
In an economy such as the United States, where start-ups are revered, people who would make perfectly good project supervisors or salespeople establish their own companies, starving the ecosystem of middle managers.
We need more women volunteering at the community level, and we need more women in senior positions as disaster managers.
And a growing number of investors care about climate change, with 26% of asset managers (accounting for more than $12 trillion of assets under management) reporting that it factors into their investment decisions.
Given low carbon prices, the long-term consequences of emissions count for little, even among progressive asset managers.
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