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...addition of more third-party sellers. Its November acquisition of online shoe giant Zappos, for example, contributed $200 million of revenue to the company's fourth quarter. The number of active third-party sellers rose 27% to 1.9 million, and revenue from international sales climbed 49% to $4.56 billion in the latest quarter...
...Just open a spigot and watch the money flow. China's government can also push ahead on important long-term projects with greater speed. While health care reform in the U.S. languishes in Congress, China is building an extensive health care system to cover nearly all of its 1.3 billion people. (See TIME's China covers...
...reason why the NFL should change their policy on officials is the height of the stakes of each game. Consider this: the average NFL team is worth $957 million, the Dallas Cowboys being the highest at $1.5 billion. That is an enormous investment by the teams’ owners and other investors. In addition, the three major networks each pay an average of two billion dollars a year to broadcast NFL games. With millions of dollars on the line for each game, teams, television networks, and NFL executives give their best effort to produce the best football possible...
Today, thanks to a grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package, which allocated $21.5 billion for research and development—the two still have their jobs...
...commitment to budget balancing (including a bipartisan commission to reduce the deficit that Republicans had been clamoring for), a new emphasis on free trade, a total reversal of his party's traditional positions on nuclear power and offshore drilling. In Baltimore, Obama reminded the Republicans that his $787 billion stimulus package had comprised elements they'd normally support - a $288 billion middle-class tax cut, $275 billion to bail out financially strapped states and an extensive infrastructure plan. "A lot of you," he noted, dryly, "have gone to appear at ribbon cuttings for the same projects you voted against...