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...changed: foreign broadcasters are eager to get into the China market, Beijing is willing to have them (if it can control content) and the market is one of the world's biggest plums. Whether China will actually allow direct-to-viewer foreign television transmissions is another matter. The technological bottleneck?and potential filter?created by a centralized uplink facility could soothe the anxieties of China's political mandarins. Such a policy change would surely be good for business. Goldman Sachs expects TV advertising revenues in China to grow from $2 billion today to $7 billion in 2010. And someday, additional...
...problems are the usual ones - California is short on reserves of reformulated gas, a cleaner-burning blend required by the EPA in certain urban (read: smoggy) areas in summer. Chicago is at the bottleneck of the Midwest refinery supply line; prices go up as soon as one of the area's suppliers (like the Tosco refinery in Wood River, Ill., that had a fire last week) goes down...
...PRESIDENT: Yes, I think the main problem on refined product is that we haven't built any refineries. And the bottleneck is really not enough refined product on the market - although OPEC pricing does matter. And I would strongly hope that OPEC does not hurt the huge market called The United States of America by running up the price of crude...
...feels a creative bottleneck. She felt she did as much as she could for the place," he said. "She has her own interests...
...flurry of construction that was supposed to relieve the electric bottleneck has yet to arrive. Old-line utilities--which used to count on a guaranteed 5% to 7% profit--have been reluctant to invest in billion-dollar plants without understanding the vagaries of the free market, and upstart energy providers are still trying to figure out which markets are worth the hefty investments required. At the same time, the industry is plagued by an antiquated, balkanized transmission grid that wasn't built to wheel power from one region to another. "America is a superpower, but it's got the grid...