Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 18, 2015 (II)

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(4) Lauren Etter, The Texas Approach to Emergency Treatment.
www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... emergency-treatment
(“The ER that Westerby visited is one of 145 independent emergency centers that have opened in Texas since 2010, when the state became the first in the U.S. to license ERs with no hospital affiliation. Unlike traditional emergency rooms, they handle only basic cases that don’t require surgery or overnight stays”)

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Private chains lobby to open ERs catering to the well-helled
(b) Read only the first two paragraphs.

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(5) Carol Hymowitz, Minding the Family Store for the next generation.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... succession-planning

Quote:

"Founders who have their name on the door and whose reputations are intertwined with their businesses often are reluctant to hand the reins over to heirs and do little succession planning, says Charles Mueller, Northern Trust’s executive vice president and director for trust and financial advisory services. 'So many entrepreneurs are control-oriented'

"Only 30 percent of family businesses survive into the second generation. Just 12 percent are viable into the third and 3 percent beyond that, according to the Family Business Institute.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: A century-old retail business lays the groundwork for succession.
(b) "As a teenager, Caryn, the middle sister, chastised her parents and siblings for talking shop at the dinner table—such as which customer bought a Chanel suit—instead of discussing politics and world events."

talk shop: "to speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed"
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/talk-shop
(c) “When Lori read books on merchandising, ‘my father said I was wasting my time because it was all about intuition,’ she recalls.”

merchandise (vt):
"1 :  to buy and sell in business
2:  to promote for or as if for sale <merchandise a movie star>"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merchandise

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(6) Katarina Gustafsson, A Swedish Upstart starts Feeling Its Oats.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ry-industry-lawsuit

Quote:

"Oatly, the Swedish oat milk producer [ie, company] * * * Oatly was born in the early 1990s from a research project at Lund University, just north of its current headquarters in Malmö. After testing various crops, scientists used enzymes to transform oats into a drink resembling milk.

"competition from other nondairy milk substitutes. In addition to soy and almond milk, scientists have developed alternatives based on everything from hemp to quinoa.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Nondiary milk producer Oatly is benefiting from industry lawsuit.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.
(c) Gustav (name)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_(name)
(also spelled Gustaf)
(d)
(i) feel one's oats (v; etymology: an allusion to the behavior of a horse that has eaten well of oats)
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feel_one's_oats
(ii) feel one's oats: "North American informal  feel lively and energetic"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/de ... an_english/feel-one

(e) In Taiwan, we have 米漿
zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E7%B1%B3%E6%BC%BF

(contrast 豆漿--which Taiwanese is 豆奶--in color, taste and consistency), whose Taiwanese pronunciation is 米奶.
(i) 百度百科 calls 米浆 "台湾甜品."
(ii) consistency (n): "degree of viscosity or firmness"
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/consistency