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...this hasn't stopped the leaders of the sand-swept region from pressing local companies to invest abroad and establish an international presence. Last month, Ningxia's commerce bureau issued a directive titled "Leading Ningxia's Enterprises to Grasp the Opportunity and Go Out Faster." The document takes into account that leaping into the cutthroat international arena entails certain risks, noting that the vast majority of Ningxia's enterprises that have previously ventured overseas have gone bankrupt, while the remainder "lack talented managers" and "have often been taken in by scams." The commerce bureau reaches a sunny conclusion, however: investment...
...going to keep all options open. I'm not saying yes or no at this point," says Republican Congressman Mike Castle of Delaware, who leads a group of Republican moderates known as the Main Street Partnership. "It's well and good to say the average gain [in an investment account] would be higher than if you left it in Social Security, but there's a definite certainty to Social Security. When you're in the market, you're subject to the whims of the market...
...most ardent Republican supporters of private savings accounts say that Bush, having decided to take the plunge, should go all the way. He's expected to propose allowing workers to put one-third of the 6.2% payroll tax that is deducted from their paychecks into individual accounts. But advocates like Gingrich and antitax activist Grover Norquist want to know, Why not more? "It's going to take exactly the same amount of energy," Gingrich says. "You are better off trying to get the largest possible account." However big the plan, Bush recognizes that the politics inside his party are daunting...
...month, is that it produces nary a puff of smoke: the Fetish is powered by 100 rechargeable batteries that keep it going for 200 miles. The Fetish is emblematic of a trend in the automobile business: carmakers realize that if they hope to sell more environmentally friendly vehicles (which account for less than 1% of the cars and light trucks sold in the U.S.), they'll need to spruce and rev them up considerably. Thus Honda is coming out with a hybrid version of its Accord that is even more powerful than the original. Lexus, meanwhile, is getting brisk preorders...
...little deeper, and Jenness starts to look a lot like a Kellogg man in disguise--and we're not just talking about the time at an Atlanta sales convention when he donned a Tony the Tiger suit. From his first days at Leo Burnett, he worked on the Kellogg account. By 1985, he was running all of his firm's global Kellogg business, often traveling around the world with Kellogg's marketing team...