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...climb to prominence hasn't been easy. Just a few decades ago, Samsung Group founder Lee made the annual December pilgrimage to Japan for how-to books and advice from economists and business leaders, some of whom were his classmates in the 1930s at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. As recently as the late 1970s, Samsung engineers were huddled over Japanese TV sets, trying to reverse-engineer their components and produce them for less. As late as 1993, Samsung Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning...
...expected finally came on Saturday morning, March 2, after being postponed for 48 hours because of bad weather. At Bagram, Colonel Frank Wiercinski told his men that this would be a "defining moment" in their lives. Echoing the motto of the 10th Mountain Division, he said, "This is your climb to glory." The helicopters took off and flew south. The division, heading for battle position Eve, attacked the villages of Sarkhankhel, Marzak and Babakul, taking al-Qaeda by surprise. "The bad guys were drinking tea when we arrived," says Hagenbeck. "Our snipers," says one soldier, "whacked a whole...
...Senate this November. "We would be making a mistake if we simply stepped off the battlefield when a lot is at stake and when a lot of people have rallied around one candidate who had become the presumptive favorite," Rove told TIME. "We've got a big road to climb, and we need to get behind somebody...
...pressure may not be the only reason for Sharon's climb-down. His failure to stem the escalating tide of violence had left him teetering in the face of plummeting poll numbers and mounting challenges from both right and left. Following the U.S. line allows him to reposition himself in the center, alongside his Labor Party coalition partners on whose support he will depend to stave off the collapse of his government as right-wingers defect - and hold his most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu...
...Smoother flying may be ahead, although it will take some time. The FAA announced this week that while air travel is picking up, it will take another year for traffic to climb back to pre-9/11 levels. And airlines won't start posting a profit until well into...