Having come from a family with lots of tobacco farmers in the tree, I can understand why there was a No Smoking sign. Besides of it cutting production, the danger of fire is always present where there is dried tobacco and nothing burns quite like a barn of cured tobacco. Good post! Good point. Just made us chuckle as did the ladies having a furtive cigarette. Thanks for your comment. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Email Address. Wilbur's Travels. In Trinidad de Cuba cigars are still made the old way. Like this: Like Loading No so just watched it. Lovely post! Please leave any thoughts or comments about this Wilbur's Travels post below Cancel reply. But, more pertinently, General Dannatt also says: "The responsibility of commanders is to be at the heart of this process.
It cannot be delegated, and I hold you all accountable for it. The values are about character and spirit; the standards define our actions and behaviour. I expect everyone in the army to abide by these values and standards. The army, precisely because it deals with such critical situations of life and death, has developed its own powerful code covering all ranks. Banking may not be quite as vital to us as those finely tuned life-and-death moments, but it is a critical utility on which all our livelihoods depend and having the public's trust is essential.
Indeed, trust is at the heart of the banking system — credit comes from the Latin credo — meaning "I believe" or "I trust". If trust goes, then there is not much credit left. Without question, there has been a total collapse in ethical behaviour in the industry; we've seen that demonstrated in a litany of events ranging from the sub-prime housing crisis which triggered the financial crash, to the over-lending to countries and individuals, from the ambitious and greedy takeover by Royal Bank of Scotland of ABN Amro through to the mis-selling of PPI and now to Liborgate.
None of these events is an isolated one. Each demonstrated the complete break-down in the values of an entire generation of bankers and financiers who used — and abused — the companies they worked for in pursuit of personal gain way beyond what they should have been paid by increasing risk to maximize their bonuses. Bonus is another Latin word — bono, for the good — which has deviated from its original meaning. Labels: Political notes. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom.
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