Bloomberg BusinessWeek , Sept 23, 2013

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(1) Evan Applegate and Ilan Koblet, Pay More With Less.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... and-college-tuition

(2) Eric Chemi and Mark Glassman, The Dow Gets Less Industrial.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... ets-less-industrial

Note
(a) Dow Jones & Company inc was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.
(b) The Dow Chemical Co "was founded in 1897 by Canadian-born chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who invented a new method of extracting the bromine that was trapped underground in brine at Midland, Michigan" where it is still headquartered. Wiki

(3) Noah Buhayar, The CEOs' Favorite Cliché.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... the-laser-treatment
("The phrase 'laser-focused' appeared in more than 250 transcripts of earnings calls and investor events this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, on pace to eclipse the 287 in all of 2012")

My comments: Read only the four quotations in the report.

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(4) Richard Teitelbaum, Buy-and-Hold Pays off for an Early Buffett Fan.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -into-a-billionaire

window of print: 5,800  Horejsi’s peak holding of Berkshire shares

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: When his business stalled, he began buying Berkshire shares
(b) The Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surname is “from Yiddish teytlboym ‘date palm’ (from Middle High German tahtel ‘date’ + boum ‘tree’).”


(5) Maria Petrakis, Greece Sets up Its Own EBay to unload property.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... sell-state-property

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Athens turns to online auctions to help it meet debt reduction goals
(b) Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) is a state-owned company. See
The Fund. HRADF, undated
http://www.hradf.com/en/the-fund
(“The Fund is a ‘societe anonyme,’ of which Hellenic Republic is the sole shareholder with a share capital of €30 million. The Fund is not a public entity and is governed by private law. The assets transferred to it by the State do not form part of its share capital”

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(6) Ladka Bauerova, A Piano Maker’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... na-sales-to-survive

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Petrof has survived two world wars and a communist takeover
(b) Bohemia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia
(section 1 Etymology)
(c) Petrof  佩卓夫
(d) slideshow (online only, not in print)
http://images.businessweek.com/s ... s-bohemian-rhapsody

(7) Nick Leiber with Tate Watkins, A Star-Powered Factory Opens in Haiti.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... el-factory-in-haiti

two consecutive paragraphs:

“Garment manufacturing accounted for 80 percent of Haiti’s exports and about 10 percent of its gross domestic product in 2010, according to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

“US trade laws waive duties on much of the clothing imported from the Caribbean nation. Richard Coles, who has spent the past 15 years running his family’s 3,000-employee textile operation in Haiti, calls much of the local apparel industry ‘archaic.’

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(8) Susan Berfield, Dirty Honey; Uncovering the largest food fraud in us History.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... u-dot-s-dot-history

My comment This is one of the three feature stories in the issue. Yes, China is involved (that is a selling point nowadays). But the story is interesting by and of itself.

(9) James Patterson, How Did I Get Here?
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... best-selling-author

My comment:
(a) I have not heard of the author or his books, but this report is funny.
(b) copywriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copywriter
(c) JWT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWT
(d) Ray Charles had to check into McLean
(i) Ray Charles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles
(ii) Founded in 1811 and named in honor of one of its earliest benefactors, John McLean, the psychiatric hospital, McLean Hospital, is one of many Harvard teaching Hospitals.