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From restaurants to retailers, virus transformed economies
Dec. 16, 2020 at 9:54 am
It would be just a temporary precaution.
When the viral pandemic erupted in March, employees of the small insurance firm Thimble fled their Manhattan offices. CEO Jay Bregman planned to call them back soon as soon as New York was safe again.
Within weeks, he’d changed his mind. Bregman broke his company’s lease and told his two dozen or so staffers they could keep working from home possibly for good.
The gains were at once unexpected and immediate. Bregman is saving money on rent. He no longer has to persuade recruits to relocate to a crushingly expensive city. He’s increased his staff by 20% and for the first time added new hires in Texas and California.
Guido Goldman, who forged closer ties between Germany and U.S., dies at 83
Harrison Smith, The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2020
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The cause was prostate cancer, said his friend Karl Kaiser, a longtime colleague at Harvard University.
Modest and convivial, with a self-deprecating wit, Goldman was a behind-the-scenes force in European-American relations for more than five decades, with a special focus on fostering connections between Germany and the United States after World War II. He helped build Harvard s Center for European Studies, founded the German Marshall Fund of the United States and became known as America s Mr. Germany while meeting with German chancellors from Willy Brandt to Angela Merkel.