"It's a business problem - and people really have to take the bit between their teeth, " says Ray Muller, business consulting manager for CSSL, a Hong Kong-based reseller of IBM mainframes that will soon launch a consulting division to offer clients solutions to their Year 2000 problems.

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This week, consulting firm Capgemini and private wealth manager Merrill Lynch Wealth Management published their annual review of where the rich are.

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In September, the assistant town manager fired the police chief without consulting the town council, according to other town officials.

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Leeds struck out on his own in 1995, ditching a steady paycheck as a planning manager for printermaker Lexmark and opening a consulting shop in Guangzhou, China to help American companies set up manufacturing plants there.

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