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...PROS: Yahoo just began testing out AdSense, Google's Internet advertising platform, on 3% of its search queries. Since Google is more effective at making money from search than Yahoo, this would boost Yahoo's revenue. That, in turn, would raise Yahoo's stock price and shareholder value...
...anything, it looks like Lee's resolve can only get stronger. That's partly because members of his Grand National Party had a strong showing in April 9 parliamentary elections, which may make it easier for Lee to push his get-tough agenda. To further boost his position, on April 15-19 Lee is scheduled to visit the U.S., where he'll meet with President George W. Bush at Camp David. During the Roh years, relations between the two longtime allies sank to a nadir, partly due to Roh's refusal to go along with Bush's efforts to squeeze...
...part of that strategy moving manufacturing to lower-cost countries to boost profits...
...Dairy and timber exporters are expected to profit most, but manufacturers like white-goods maker Fisher & Paykel and fashion house Icebreaker also stand to gain from easier access to China's low-cost factories as well as to its fast-growing middle class. The projected $300 million annual income boost from the free-trade agreement "is obviously worth having," says Skilling. But "given that our total exports are about $NZ40 billion [$32 billion] a year, it's pretty small." The real action, he says, will lie in the "dynamic effect" of a bigger Kiwi presence in China and "the signal...
...apart in their foreign policy approaches. For all the shouting over Iraq, both Democrats propose a limited and ultimately hard-to-deliver drawdown of U.S. troops there. Both want to talk with America's enemies--give or take a few crazy heads of state--and both want to boost foreign aid to win back goodwill around the globe. "You've got a split in a tribe of like-minded people," says Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution. But if Democrats have none of the deep ideological divisions that have plagued Republicans since before Gerald Ford, there are sharp character...