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...staying focused, even at the end of a long day when you're tired and you're doing some things that may have some risk to them." This was his first space flight, and when he talked about it with friends, he talked faster, and his eyes got brighter, and his hands started moving, because there was no other trip like this...
...ready for the future, but Ijiri and the kids hanging out in the Job Cafe Osaka are not. Sociology professor Yamada says the real problem crippling Japan is not the wealth gap between rich and poor but the "hope disparity"?a widening gulf between those who see a brighter future ahead and those who do not. In Osaka, Ijiri can relate. His father's generation, he says, believed that tomorrow will be better than today. Ijiri's judgment: "I don't know if I'll ever make enough to support a family. We're most definitely headed the wrong...
...chemical GE dumped, legally, for decades before the practice was banned in 1977. Since Welch retired in 2001, however, Immelt has been remaking GE. He recently announced a restructuring, paring 11 operating divisions to six. He has pruned slow-growth businesses like insurance and loaded up on enterprises with brighter prospects, such as media and medical devices. Now, he's giving environmental products a starring role--pledging to invest in green technologies, clean up company operations and promote GE as a conglomerate even Sierra Clubbers might like...
Economic reform has been slow in both Spain and Portugal since the two countries ended authoritarian regimes and established democratic governments in the 1970s. The Spanish government has encouraged the shrinking of old-line industries, including steel and shipbuilding, as a way of shifting resources to businesses with brighter futures. But in the process, unemployment has risen to about 20%, from 5.3% in 1977. in Portugal, political instability, which has resulted in 16 governments in the past twelve years, has held back economic progress. The country's per capita annual income is $1,900, less than a third...
Democratic prospects are brighter in the Northeast, where Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts hope to enhance their national prospects with big re-election wins. Yet their once secure colleague, William O'Neill of Connecticut, has been losing ground to charismatic Republican State Legislator Julie Belaga; the latest polls show O'Neill clinging to a narrow lead...