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Despite violent environment, Israeli companies focus on performance.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Publication Date: 25-NOV-04 Author: Johnson, Cecil
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COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
Byline: Cecil Johnson
``Business Under Fire: How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding in the Face of Terror _ and What We Can Learn From Them,'' by Dan Carrison (Amacom, 256 pages, $24.95)
The chairman of the board of an Israeli clothing manufacturer told ``Business Under Fire'' author Dan Carrison a joke that speaks volumes about how Israelis and Israeli businesses cope with the waves of terror, especially in the past four years.
"One day God called all the leaders of the world into Heaven. He told them they had made a mess of the world, and that it was time to start the whole experiment over. 'Go to your peoples,' he thundered, 'and tell them in six months I shall cover the earth with another flood.' Contrite, the American president advised his countrymen to repent and prepare to meet...
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