Hints and tips:
...We don’t want to diss Idaho, but having to pay your new head of human resources $1.4mn to join you at the potato farm is . . . quite damning....
...Indeed, Lehman Bros before the crash was widely viewed as having one of the best managed cultures on Wall Street under Dick Fuld, now resident in Sun Valley, Idaho....
...WARNING: what has happened is no guarantee of what will happen. WARNING II: if you need the first warning, perhaps see us after class?...
...The probe concerns Diamond’s accounting for crop payments to walnut growers and has disrupted the plans of P&G, the world’s biggest consumer goods company, to exit the food business....
...The daughter of an Idaho potato farmer, Ms Oppenheimer graduated from the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington in 1980....
...The stock includes books of “redneck poetry” and spent shells from the civil war, Third Reich-inspired rock CDs and bumper stickers reading “The United States is an Obamanation to the world”....
...William Tuohy was born in Chicago on October 1 1926, the descendant of an Irishman who had fled there during the potato famine....
...“Jack Simplot was to the potato what Henry Ford was to the automobile,” one Idaho newspaper eulogised....
...In Idaho, a vegetable gets top billing with the slogan “Famous Potatoes”. Idaho has a proud agricultural heritage and mile upon mile of potato farms....
...Highest Corporate Carbohydrates John Richard “Jack” Simplot, 97 $2.6bn, potatoes Boise, Idaho After dropping out of school, Jack Simplot left home at the age of 14 to work on a potato farm near Declo...
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