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...obscure until 2005, when he upset the P.A.N.'s anointed candidate to win the party's 2006 presidential nomination. He later overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat López Obrador. "Calderón is an up-by-the-bootstraps story and has always gone against the odds," says political analyst Federico Estévez of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "To a lot of people, that's what Mexico needs at this fragile stage of its democracy...
...mergers. Yet the partnership has not only functioned better than management or labor had hoped, but has also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with Paris brokerage Oddo Securities. "It's got virtually the entire world covered and has the size and reach to be able to shift aircraft to fast-growing routes wherever they are. That leaves Air France--KLM in a pretty commanding position for the coming years...
...annoyance comes with a price tag. Jeffrey Hammond, senior analyst at Forrester Research, estimates the daylight saving time (DST) switch will cost the average company $50,000 in time and labor expenses - a conservative figure that doesn't take into account missed airline flights or forgotten appointments. That's a total of $350 million for the 7,000 publicly traded companies in the U.S. "In the aggregate it will probably be worth it, but right now it's an unfair tax on corporate America and even businesses worldwide that I don't think Congress thought about," says Hammond. Since most...
...last year, the market for phone service aimed at kids ages 8 to 12 is minuscule, with a wireless-market penetration of only about 25%. That's partly by design. "They want to avoid looking like Joe Camel and preying on children," says Roger Entner, a Boston-based wireless analyst with the Ovum research firm. "So they haven't done much more in this area other than create family plans...
...other insurgent groups and numerous clans, gangs, and families with their own militias and interests, ranging from offering protection to taking revenge, from committing crimes to firing rockets at Israel. (Much of the recent violence in Gaza was clan-related.) Whatever their motives, says Nicholas Pelham, Senior Middle East Analyst with the International Crisis Group, "there are too many forces that are loyal to a faction or a family and not the Palestinian Authority...