As Ruth Reichl flew down from Los Angeles to take over the job of food critic at the New York Times, she came to a realisation that would change her professional life.

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After repositioning the brand, Amrutanjan launches its first ad campaign.

Ooh, aah, ouch!

A diversified workforce can help improve performance and growth, but it has its challenges too
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How much diversity is too much?

It had to happen. First, they outsourced manufacturing, and then services. Now they do not want to recruit or nurture talent. In comes recruitment process outsourcing, or RPO.

&#39;RPO is for the enlightened&#39;

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    Born in 1930, this person filed his income tax return at the age of 14, paying $7 as taxes. He peddled refurbished golf balls, pinball machines and collectible stamps as a high school student. By age 30, he was a millionaire and set up his firm based on the Newman &amp; Graham model in 1956. Today, he is a legend. Identify him.

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    This major American investment management firm has $1.3 trillion (approximately) of assets under its management across fixed income, liquidity, equity and real estate. It has a technology platform named Aladdin, which it offers to other investment management organisations, too. Identify the firm.

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Alcohol Anomalous

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The other day I met someone who had recently been in a car accident.

Horace and Wilfred

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