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BEST OF FRIENDS. His family is assassinated. Now, Alex is the sole inheritor of a Northern California crime empire responsible for millions of dollars in cocaine distribution. An empire he controls with the help of his best friend, Slick Rick. But soon, Alex is gunned down south of the border, and Slick Rick is looking for answers. BEST OF CRIMINALS. Easier said than done. Rick has other problems. He's trying to make a million-dollar deal with a trio of Peruvian gangsters. He's dodging bullets from his former drug connection. He's avoiding parenthood, marriage, and his mistress. His cousin Bobby D has a drug problem, and is dating a cop's sister. His compulsive-gambling friend Tony Montana is in debt to the mob. And his career-thief friend Crazy Lou arrives with more than drug money; he brings the San Francisco Police knocking on Rick's door. BEST OF ENEMIES. On the dark streets of this under world of crime, these Dealers will learn a valuable lesson - Beware of your friends, never mind your enemies - but it will be too late. And like Rick says, "Dealers get a closed casket funeral."
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Analyzes how emerging market firms upgrade their capabilities to compete globally despite operating in challenging home country environments.
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Business groups - large, diversified, often family-controlled organizations with pyramidal ownership structure, such as the Japanese zaibatsu, the Korean chaebol and the grupos economicos in Latin America - have played a significant role in national economic growth, especially in emerging economies. Earlier variants can also be found in the trading companies, often set up in Britain, which operated in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Business groups are often criticized as premodern forms of economic organization, and occasionally as symptomatic of corrupt 'crony capitalism', but many have shown remarkable resilience, navigating and adjusting to economic and political turbulence, internation...
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Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil...