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Sulzberger's respect for his subordinates and the jobs they held in his organization. He never gave himself any extra privileges because of his position in the organization and acted with humility. Another leader from a different industry in a different country was India's JRD Tata who acted in the same way with subordinates in his organization, the Tata Group.

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The ECB, the Fed and the Bank of England and others in coordinated half point rate cuts to address a global credit and markets crisis.

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The White House statement says on this new Economic Corridor agreed on at the G20 Summit in New Delhi yesterday September 10, 2023, says-

"We aim to ensure a new area of connectivity with a railway, linked through ports connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The United States and our partners aim to link both continents to commercial hubs, and facilitate the development and export of clean energy; lay undersea cables and link energy grids and telecommunication lines to expand reliable access to electricity; enable innovation of advanced energy technology; and connect communities to secure and stable internet. Across the corridor we envision driving existing trade and manufacturing, and strengthening food security and supply chains."

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Huawei launches its smartphone model the Ascend P6 at the historic performing arts location Roundhouse in London. Huawei is using the same marketing tactics used by Apple and copied by Samsung to get customer attention. Huawei, the second largest supplier of telecom equipmen after Ericsson of Sweden, is not known for its consumer products. This is the first time it is adopting high profile marketing strategies to upset the duopoly of Apple and Samsung in the smartphone market. Other competitors are LG, ZTE, Sony and Lenovo, each trying to take market share from Apple and Samsung. Apple lost over 5 points of market share in smartphones in 2012 and Samsung gained close to 4 points by coming up with a low priced range of smartphones. Apple now has 17.3%, Samsung 32.7%, LG 4.8%, Huawei 4.6%, ZTE 4.2%, for 1st quarter 2013. Samsung now faces competition in the lower priced segments from Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE and HTC, companies in China with products for this segment.

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Blue Origin's plans for moon landings. The Blue Moon Lunar cargo Lander is expected to launch for US 2024 moon mission in a contract with NASA.

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45,000 dock workers of the Longshoreman's Union go on strike for a 77% wage increase over 6 years. The dock operators offered 40% wage increase. This follows negotiations by other unions for wage increases to meet the cost of living increases of recent years and depressed wages arising from a period of weakness for unions. Biden- Harris want to see fair wages and want to see the strike settled.

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A new Boeing order is expected for $35 billion from Saudi Arabia. The Saudis will also launch a new national airline.

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Siome things that emerge from this report are that Thain spent some $1.2 million in redecorating his office after Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch. This was after the near demise of Merrill from taking excessive risks. Sources also say Thain asked for a $30 million to $40 million bonus which was not approved. A few days before the Merrill deal was finally concluded on January 1, under stressful circumstances because of Merrill's huge impending losses, Thain issued bonuses of millions of dollars to Merrill executives. See the links to Merrill for the pattern of giving bonuses worth 100 times the salary to Merrill executives under a former CEO of Merrill Lynch in 2006 and 2007.