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All Hail the Virtuous Millennials!

Millennials have fun.... Millennials didn’t grow up in the worst of times – things can always get worse, it’s simply a matter of perspective. But it’s fair to say that the majority of them came of age amid one of American history’s greatest time of challenge. Still, it seems you wouldn’t know it based on how this generation thinks and acts. Millennials have shown time and time again, experts say, that they are ready, willing and more-than able to rise to the challenge. Previous generations certainly had their own allotment of horrors – the wars (World War I and II, the Korean and Vietnam conflict), then things like the Kent State massacre, the mass murderers like Texas sniper Charles Whitman, serial killers like Ted Bundy, and mob wars in Philadelphia, New York and other cities, putting on newspaper front pages gruesome dead mobsters. (Think of Carmine Galante, Lilo, shot dead, a cigar stump stuck in his mouth; Philadelphia boss Angelo Bruno sitting in the front passenger'...

Undercover Boss: ABM's Slipsager's Smarts Not so Blatant

Henrik Slipsager, CEO of ABM; potential reality-TV comedian. ABM Industries Inc. (NYSE:ABM) reported for its fourth quarter ended Oct. 31, 2010, revenue of $901.4 million for fiscal year 2010 vs. the previous year's $868.0 million; net income was $21.8 million, a 45.2% increase from the previous year's fourth quarter. For the fiscal year revenue was $3.5 billion, flat compared to year-ago revenues. Net income was $64.1 million, an increase of 18.1% compared to fiscal year 2009. "The company's fourth quarter results delivered a strong finish to the fiscal year," said Henrik Slipsager , president and chief executive officer, ABM Industries.