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...It’s not pretty, but it’s progress,” says Vice President Dick Cheney, taking a break from one of a seemingly endless series of National Security Council meetings in the aftermath of 9/11...
...Pretty fast, it seems. It took the U.S. five months to build up forces before starting the war with Iraq in 1991. But they had to be drawn mostly from bases in Europe. With the cold war dead, most U.S. forces have left Europe for home. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, however, much of their gear has been relocated to a ring of bases set up in the Persian Gulf. Its proximity to the front line--and the fact that technology has made the military more efficient--means that by mid-December the U.S. should be ready...
...days, compared with 11 days in Germany and six in America. Financial services are also rife with inefficiencies: Life insurance is largely sold not by financial professionals but by brigades of old ladies, often part-timers working door to door?a model that has not changed since the aftermath of World War II. Indeed, the sectors that account for 90% of Japan's economic output achieve labor productivity rates just 63% of those in the U.S. As the McKinsey report bluntly puts it, these sectors are "the source of Japan's ills and the Japanese economy will not rebound until...
Facing protest and condemnation, WordsWorth Books chose to cancel last Thursday’s scheduled appearance by William Langewiesche, author of a controversial new book on rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York. WordsWorth’s manager, Sanj Kharbanda, cited security concerns in explaining the cancellation; he said he feared that the protest planned by firefighters would require a greater police presence than could be arranged on short notice...
...Suameria and his fellow Balinese are casualties of the aftermath of the blasts nonetheless. Some 80% of Bali's economy depends on tourism, and foreign visitors have all but vanished. Japan lifted its travel warning for Bali earlier this month, and Australia has downgraded its alert to a region-wide advisory. But the U.S., Germany and France, among other tourist-generating nations, are still telling their citizens to avoid Bali. This angers I Gde Pitana, director of the Bali Tourism Authority, who points out that there were no travel warnings issued for New York after Sept. 11. "Like New York...