Word: affordability
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...says licensed production of Chrysler cars in Russia could begin "within the year." Jumping into emerging markets and using joint ventures are "very attractive propositions," Anwyl says, but "these things take time." But as foreign rivals increasingly put the squeeze on Chrysler on its home turf, it can't afford to take a leisurely scenic route to global success. Chrysler's biggest worry is it left it too late to put its international ambitions into high gear...
...swanky mansions and drive fancy cars. The government has signed lucrative gas-pipeline and timber deals with other nations, but little of the money trickles down to ordinary people. The steep fuel hikes in August only heightened the economic disparity, as some formerly white-collar workers could no longer afford to take the bus to the office. Buddhist clerics are experiencing privation, too, since their lives depend on offerings from the people. "The monks are an economic barometer in Burma," says Sunai Phasuk, a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Bangkok. "They feel the deterioration of the economy...
Money can enable satisfying acts of revenge. The wronged board member returns to acquire and dismember the company; the lottery winner leaves scheming relatives out of a will. Or how about the once trampled nation that can now afford to buy back looted artifacts in a display of economic might as much as national pride...
...four. John Rogers, a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, estimates that the number of cars in India will increase from 6.2 million in 2005 to 41.6 million by 2025. Putting millions of new vehicles on roads will increase pollution and further strain overtaxed transportation networks. "We cannot afford this type of congestion," says Anumita Roychowdhury, associate director of the New Delhi-based nongovernmental group Center for Science and Environment. "It's defeating the reason people buy cars: for mobility." Roychowdhury and other environmentalists argue that developing countries should avoid the mistakes made by Europe and the U.S. by concentrating...
...families I know are being forced out because they can’t afford [to stay],” he said. “My focus in this election is to affect the peak middle-income families out there...