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1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the
French, led his Grand Army into Russia. He was
prepared for the fierce
resistance
of
the
Russian
people
defending
their
homeland.
He
was
prepared
for
the
long
march
across
Russian
soil
to
Moscow, the capital city. But he was
not prepared for the devastating enemy that
met him in Moscow
--
the raw, bitter,
bleak
Russian winter.
In 1941, Adolf Hitler,
leader of Nazi Germany, launched an attack against
the Soviet Union, as Russia then was called.
Hitler's military might was unequaled.
His war machine had mowed down resistance in most
of Europe. Hitler expected a
short
campaign but, like Napoleon before him, was taught
a painful lesson. The Russian winter again came to
the aid of the
Soviet soldiers.
of the most frustrating things about
driving a car are getting lost and getting stuck
in traffic. While the computer
revolution is unlikely to cure these
problems, it will have a positive impact. Sensors
in your car tuned to radio signals from
orbiting
satellites
can
locate
your
car
precisely
at
any
moment
and
warn
of
traffic
jams.
We
already
have
twenty-four
Navstar
satellites
orbiting
the
earth,
making
up
what
is
called
the
Global
Positioning
System.
They
make
it
possible
to
determine
your
location
on the
earth
to
within
about
a hundred
feet. At
any
given
time,
there
are
several
GPS
satellites
orbiting
overhead
at
a
distance
of
about
11,000
miles.
Each
satellite
contains
four
clocks,
which
vibrate
at
a
precise frequency, according to the
laws of the quantum theory.
As a satellite passes
overhead, it sends out a radio signal that can be
detected by a receiver in a car's computer. The
car's
computer can then calculate how
far the satellite is by measuring how long it took
for the signal to arrive. Since the speed of
light is well known, any delay in
receiving the satellite's signal can be converted
into a distance.
3. Had he checked with
his university to see if there were any graduates
working at Mackay whom he could interview? Had
he asked any friends to grill him in a
mock interview? Did he go to the library to find
newspaper clippings on us?
Did he write a letter
beforehand to tell us about himself, what he was
doing to prepare for the interview and why he'd be
right for the job? Was he planning to
follow up the interview with another letter
indicating his eagerness to join us? Would
the letter be in our hands within 24
hours of the meeting, possibly even hand-
delivered?
The answer to every question was the
same: no. That left me with only one other
question: How well prepared would
this
person be if he were to call on a prospective
customer for us? I already knew the answer.
gh Browder and Mandl define their
nationality differently, both see their identity
as a matter of personal choice, not
an
accident of birth. And not incidentally, both are
Davos Men members of the international business
é
lite who trek each
year to the Swiss Alpine town for the
annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF),
founded in 1971. This week,
Browder
and
Mandl
will
join
more
than
2,200
executives,
politicians,
academics,
journalists,
writers
and
a
handful
of
Hollywood
stars
for
five
days
of
networking,
parties
and
endless
earnest
discussions
about
everything
from
postelection
Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global
supply of oil and the implications of
nanotechnology. Yet this year, perhaps more than
ever, a hot topic at Davos is Davos
itself. Whatever their considerable differences,
most Davos Men and Women share at
least
one
belief:
that
globalization
the
unimpeded
flows
of
capital,
laborand
technology
across
national
borders
is
both
welcome and unstoppable. They see the
world increasingly as one vast, interconnected
marketplace in which corporations
search for the most advantageous
locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and
services.
5.I think the chief thing
that struck me about Burton was his kindliness.
There was something very pleasing in his mild blue
eyes. His voice was gentle; you could
not imagine that he could possibly raise it in
anger; his smile was benign. Here was a
man who attracted you because you felt
in him a real love for his fellows. At the same
time he liked his game of cards and
his
cocktail, he could tell with point a good and
spicy story, and in his youth he had been
something of an athlete. He was a
rich
man and he had made every penny himself. I suppose
one thing that made you like him was that he was
so small and
frail; he aroused your
instincts of protection. You felt that he could
not bear to hurt a fly.
hilter
decided
to
launch
his
(1)
invasion
of
russia .he
thought
that
nothing
could
(2)
stand
in
the
way
of
his
armies.(3)
Conquest,it
seemed,was
inevitable .
He
had
surprise
on
his
side
,
(4)
catching
Stalin
off
his
guard
by
(5)
launching
his
attack
without
a
(6)
declaration
of
expected
the
(7)
campaign
to
last
only
a
few
months.
In
the
event ,it was to
(8) drag on for much Napoleon before
him ,he had made a fatal mistake in failing to
(9)
reckon
with
the
severity
of
the
Russian
German
soldiers
were
to
die
from
the
cold
as
winter
set
in,
(10)
bringing
the German advence to a halt.