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We are proud to congratulate our Partner, Rich Plewacki, on his appointment to the Board of Directors on the American Transport Research Institute’s (ATRI) Research Advisory Committee. ATRI’s Research Advisory Committee is charged with developing a research agenda through identification of research of value to the trucking industry. Rich Plewacki, Partner (216) 363-4159 | rplewacki@beneschlaw.com
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BOARDS CLEVELAND EMPLOYMENT AMERICAN INN OF COURT: Amy Glesius (Bolek Besser Glesius) to president; Donna Williams-Alexander to counselor; Ron Isroff to treasurer; Mike Chesney to secretary; Ann Marie Ahern to membership committee chair. CROHN’S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, NORTHEAST OHIO: Elizabeth Cross to treasurer. FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO CHAPTER: Virginia A. Davidson (Calfee Halter & Griswold) to president; Jason A. Hill to president-elect; Dennis G. Terez to vice president; Tim L. Collins to secretary; Anthony J. Vegh to treasurer; Diana M. Thimmig to immediate past president and delegate, National Council.
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From Little Italy to Iraq ■ The man who dominates foreign stock trades in Iraq used to wait tables in Cleveland’s Little Italy. Bloomberg Markets profiled Shwan Taha, the 43-year-old chairman and sole owner of Rabee Securities, a brokerage that handles 80% of the stock trades by foreign investors on the Iraq Stock Exchange. He was born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents and raised in the city. Mr. Taha estimates Rabee, which he bought in 1998, has funneled about $200 million in investments through the Iraq Stock Exchange since 2008. After high school, Mr. Taha came to the United States in 1986 to attend Case Western Reserve University to study biomedical engineering. “As graduation approached in 1990, he was getting ready to go home when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait,” according to Bloomberg Markets. Mr. Taha “got a call from his father telling him to stay in the U.S. It wasn’t easy. To earn a living, he worked as a waiter at La Dolce Vita Bistro in Cleveland.” He then borrowed money from family friends to enroll in George Washington University’s MBA program, which put him on his current path in the business world.
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■ The headline will make you scoff — it’s “What journalism can teach the business world” — but there’s some good insight from the Cleveland Clinic in a post from Forbes.com. For all their flaws as revenue-generators these days, journalists and their employers at least do one thing well — communicate clearly. “It’s not the same with businesses,” wrote Eric Rosenberg. “Many organizations default to opacity and
obfuscation in their communications (and) have difficulty expressing that purpose — whether it’s in a mission statement, a news release, or an internal marketing presentation.” The piece noted that a new book called “Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please: The Case for Plain Language in Business, Government, and Law” found something to admire at the Clinic. Mr. Rosenberg writes that in one example from the book, “the Cleveland Clinic recovered an extra $1 million by simplifying billing statements, which led to less confusion among patients and better compliance.”
Advertising’s China syndrome ■ Cleveland was the focal point of anti-China advertising during the presidential and Senate elections. “The two presidential campaigns spent a combined $45.7 million on television advertising that discussed China and trade,” The Wall Street Journal reported. In addition, candidates in four big Senate elections — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Indiana — spent another $8.6 million in China trade spots. Republican Mitt Romney, who pledged to name China a currency manipulator, outspent President Barack Obama by 3-to-1 ($33.8 million vs. $11.9 million) on Chinarelated ads. The place that saw the most China ads? Cleveland, where The Journal said TV watchers “were deluged with 4,722 China trade ads, which cost the campaigns $4.6 million.” In addition, Sen. Sherrod Brown spent $3.7 million on China ads. His opponent, state Treasurer Josh Mandel, ran no China ads.