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...right retailers, today is a time of great opportunity. "Right now a scary place to be is in the middle," says Christine Chen, retail analyst at Needeman & Co. "If you have your product right, you want to be high-end or value...
...warned she will not sacrifice the German car industry on the altar of emissions cutting. A last-minute change to the summit conclusions said emission targets should be introduced so as to "avoid excessive costs for member states," potentially opening the door to backsliding. Mahi Sideridou, a Greenpeace policy analyst, said the agreement had offered little beyond "some misplaced protectionist language to appease heavy industry." There are other uncertainties. Officials are already muttering that a promise to make biofuels account for 10% of fuels used for transport by 2020 would have to be amended in the face of already soaring...
...Games have often been symbolic wars dressed in short pants. Beijing views this summer as its superpower debut, and the central government won't let separatists or free-thinking dissidents undermine its lockstep message. "At the highest levels," says China analyst Russell Leigh Moses, "showing some teeth is much more viable than marching off into the unknown of reform...
...Saudis might find it politically difficult to change their position without consulting fellow OPEC members - who would surely reject the idea - says Greg Priddy, energy analyst for the Eurasia Group in Washington. "It would be a real loss of face if all of a sudden they would reverse course unilaterally," he says. Cheney's visit to Riyadh might be too late, says Priddy, adding about U.S. officials: "If they were going to ask [for increased oil production] they should have asked a month...
...decision by the city council to protect the Kennedy name was part of a desire to distance the left from anti-Catholicism, according to Cambridge political analyst Glenn S. Koocher...