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...this setting, a committee is a leaderless power-sharing team, but it's not exactly a democracy. Sitting in a conference room, the team discusses and asks questions--How are executives incentivized? What would boost margins?--and then, going around the table, each member voices an opinion. "It's not a strict vote. Just because five agree and four don't doesn't mean an idea will go through," says Roger Kuo, an analyst who covers media companies and sits on the policy committee for international stocks. Four strong objectors and five moderately enthusiastic supporters will probably nix an idea...
...Down the line, Einstein believes his team's conclusions will boost cardiac diagnostic technology and prompt major manufacturers to improve it. "This is an impetus toward accelerating the pace of research in cardiac CT scans so as to reduce the dose to patients," says Einstein...
...previous parties with Islamist roots, the AKP has so far steered clear of the kind of overt Islamist doctrine that got its predecessors in trouble. Instead, it has built a record based on reforming Turkish democratic and economic institutions to fit E.U. standards. The ostensible aim has been to boost Turkish prosperity and to bring the nation into Europe. A side effect has been to weaken the role of the military in Turkey's political life and to strengthen religious and minority rights. The result: a de facto challenge to the secular establishment that has dominated Turkish society since...
...enough to fill 230,000 railroad cars - that's a train 1,860 miles (3,000 km) long. And while current European Union regulations dictate that only 15% of an auto can wind up in a scrapyard, that percentage will drop to 5% in 2015 - a requirement that should boost the industry's growth, since remanufacturers need a steady supply of broken-down goods for the process to work efficiently...
...impasse arises because both Israel and Hamas believe that they hold the stronger hand and don't want to compromise. As canny observers of Israeli politics, Hamas knows that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could use the freeing of Shalit to boost his plummeting popularity. Meanwhile, the Israelis reckon that Hamas could capitalize on the exchange of hundreds of prisoners as a way to improve their support among Palestinians, and their international standing. Israel and Western government slapped an economic blockade on 1.5 million Gaza residents now living under Hamas' rule, and it would help Hamas' standing if these sanctions were...