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Though historically sympathetic to strike movements, most French voters firmly back Sarkozy in this clash with unions. After all, he was elected on an overt promise of sweeping change, giving him greater reformist legitimacy than his more cautious predecessors. Despite the disruption that the recent strikes have caused - and the prospect that they will drag on - polls show Sarkozy holding steady with a 55% approval rating. Yet a further test of will comes on Nov. 20, when hundreds of thousands of state employees are scheduled to protest over 22,000 public-sector job cuts slated for 2008. And more antireform...
Ambitious, persistent--but cautious: those characteristics are also Brabeck hallmarks as he attempts to lead Nestle up its own steep mountain. He took over as chief executive in 1997 in the midst of a growth spurt that saw Nestle double its sales, to $60 billion, in a decade and cement its position as the world's largest food company. With brands that include Stouffer's frozen dinners, Perrier and Pellegrino water, Nescafe coffee, Friskies cat food, Carnation milk, Buitoni pasta and After Eight chocolate mints, it's the leader in hundreds of product categories worldwide. But Brabeck isn't satisfied...
...being overly cautious? Not at all, Ting says, describing the attitude of doctors who brush off slightly elevated blood pressure as "the fatal smile" syndrome. "Patients get a clean bill of health from such doctors, and the next week they get a stroke," he says. "It's not enough to treat people with very high blood pressure. We're targeting people with no symptoms...
...Clinton has been accused of running a cautious front-runner campaign. She is challenged by a pair of dynamic younger candidates in Barack Obama and John Edwards. She has endorsed higher taxes for the wealthy. And more than a few Democrats worry that she cannot win a general election, even against a disgraced and exhausted Republican Party. In other ways, however, Clinton is the furthest thing from Mondale imaginable. A vote for Clinton is, at bottom, a radical proposition. It is a vote for the first woman to run for President, the most dramatic expansion of American possibility since...
...Actually, Clinton's debate performances - and her candidacy - don't seem quite so cautious or fudgy when you look at the transcript or travel with her on the trail. Her worst moments have come when she has tried to have it both ways on programs proposed by fellow New York Democrats. This is a too-clever-by-a-lot tendency she shares with her husband: the hope that she can admire untenable proposals made by other Democrats - like the recent tax reform proposed by Congressman Charles Rangel and Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to give illegal immigrants driver's licenses...