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- When in Rome: Travel Tips for the Globe Trotting Manager
- The Find: Sometimes the success of an international deal depends just as much on how you handle your vodka as on the content of the contract, so the Economist has rounded up practical etiquette tips to help managers headed to Moscow and other cities make the right impression....
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
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- Productivity and the Three-Martini Lunch
- Watch the AMC series "Mad Men," and you'd think that workplace boozing was key to productivity. Well, the three-martini lunch may be a thing of the past, but boozing and work still go hand-in-hand in many office cultures. From the company holiday party, to the monthly beer-bash,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- An island, a wing, an X-ray; Just another year on Chicago's M&A scene. Big corporate mergers and acquisitions are always eye-opening-and usually come with plenty of drama. Our look at the top 10 Chicago-related deals of 2005 reveals snapshots of dream
- Byline: Christina Le Beau 1 Boozing it up Buyer: Fortune Brands Inc., Lincolnshire Seller: Pernod Ricard S.A., Paris Deal size: $5.3 billion Not your typical acquisition. Pernod Ricard bought British drinks rival Allied Domecq...
- Research articles 2006-01-23
- Should You Hold Meetings Off-Site?
- The Daily Saint lists nine reasons to go off-site for your next meeting. The idea, of course, is to shake things up a bit, give the team a chance to decompress, enjoy a change of scenery and foodery, and maybe even have a little fun:As you've hand-picked the location, an...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Alcohol in the Workplace: Readers Weigh-In
- It appears our workplace boozing post touched a few hot buttons, especially those of BNET reader, Acrebel, who is dead set against allowing any alcohol in the workplace, and who lays out a pretty tight case against it: I am utterly opposed to alcohol in the workplace, for...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Two Marines sought in bank thefts/ 23-year-old from Springs the
- SAN DIEGO - They were two Marines on shore leave, one of them from Colorado Springs, boozing it up in a bar in Thailand. An FBI photo shows them smiling, a young woman on each arm. Months later, they were fugitives, absent without leave from Camp Pendleton and...
- Research articles 1999-10-24
- Britain's binge-drinking crackdown as 24-hour boozing looms
- LONDON AFP — The British government launched a hard-hitting attack on binge drinkers, just days before pubs were to be free to serve alcohol around the clock. Hailing the "biggest ever crackdown" on the widespread problem of booze-fuelled anti-social behaviour, ministers hammered out a tough line on loutish antics...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- 'Tattoed lunatic' Ozzy: I would have mooned the Queen
- LONDON AFP — Notorious rock hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne admitted he was a few beers away from mooning Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and cannot fathom why Her Majesty would want to meet the "tattoed lunatic". He said former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash offered him cash to flash his backside...
- Research articles 2005-12-11
- Driven to strip for money
- WHAT DRIVES a mother to bare her body and dance for a bunch of rowdy, boozing fellow college students? Maybe having two little mouths to feed. It's a jarring image that doesn't fit our collective sense of what undergraduate life should be like. Yet, for far too...
- Research articles 2006-04-26
- US university students choose iPods over beer
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Apple's iPod portable music player has proven more intoxicating to US students than even beer drinking, a new survey concluded. Students from one hundred US universities surveyed by Student Monitor, a market research firm, ranked the handheld hard drive a full two percentage points below...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
- Miss USA clings to tiara despite drink and drugs claims
- NEW YORK AFP — Miss USA is to keep her tiara, despite admitting that she has been boozing it up in New York, after pageant boss Donald Trump said he would give her a second chance. A tearful Tara Conner apologized to Miss Universe boss Trump at a press conference...
- Research articles 2006-12-19
- Roger, ram jet: it's over and out for boozing, pot-smoking baggage handler.
- Byline: Stephen Gibbs Nov 15, 2005 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A Qantas Airways employee who caused $A1.5m in damage to a jet in Sydney has left the ...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Miss USA admits taking cocaine
- NEW YORK AFP — Miss USA, who narrowly kept a hold of her tiara last month after admitting that she had been boozing it up in New York, has now revealed she has taken cocaine. "I have done cocaine, yeah," Tara Conner said in an interview due to be...
- Research articles 2007-01-31
- Drink culture at work fuels boozing risk, says study
- PARIS AFP — Companies which give the wink to workplace drinking add to employees' risk of becoming heavy boozers, a study published on Thursday suggests. Researchers led by Benjamin Amick of the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto, Canada, assessed 5,338 American workers for their drinking habits and...
- Research articles 2007-05-23
- NASA faces scrutiny over boozing astronauts
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US space agency faced a full-blown crisis Friday as US lawmakers promised to probe how NASA allowed astronauts to fly missions while drunk as well as the sabotage of in-flight computers. The US House of Representatives Science and Technology committee called an oversight hearing for...
- Research articles 2007-07-26
- Congress plans hearings on astronauts flying 'high'
- WASHINGTON AFP — Revelations over boozing astronauts prompted Congress to call oversight hearings Friday, as a lawmaker warned drinking and driving was a bad idea ... especially on a space shuttle. The US House of Representatives Science and Technology committee called a first hearing for September, after the US...
- Research articles 2007-07-27
- Boozy Britain: Ruptured bladders give warning to women drinkers
- LONDON AFP — Doctors on Friday issued a fresh warning over Britain's culture of binge drinking, pointing to cases of ruptured bladders among women who had been boozing. The cluster of cases is disturbing, for until now this condition had only ever been seen among male drinkers, they reported...
- Research articles 2007-11-08
- Bah humbug! Australian bosses water down Christmas cheer
- SYDNEY AFP — The Christmas Grinch has arrived. Or at least that's the feeling in some Australian workplaces where bosses have warned staff against excessive boozing and even exchanging presents, reports say. As the festive season ramps up, employers have issued staff with written directives on how to behave...
- Research articles 2007-12-19
- Wild lifestyle kept me alive: Pogues' MacGowan at 50
- LONDON AFP — The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, whose Christmas song "Fairytale of New York" remains a classic hit, told a newspaper he never thought he would live to celebrate his 50th birthday Tuesday. "Smoking, drinking, partying -- that's why I've stayed alive as long as I have," the...
- Research articles 2007-12-24
- Out for the count at Saatchis
- Floored. Saatchis Johnny Wright was exhausted bya working lunchWho says the golden age of client-agency relationships is dead? Toyota commercial director Mike 'The Man' Moran, no stranger to these pages, likes to turn the clock back to the excessive 80s when lunching with his agency pals, but the poor lads...
- Research articles 2002-02-21
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