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...This one is known as the Doha Development Round because it was conceived four years ago in the Qatari capital and is supposed to give a special boost to poor countries. But at a moment of rapid change in the world economy, with China emerging as an industrial colossus and India and Brazil starting to throw their weight around, the stakes in Hong Kong are higher and the pre-meeting positions more intractable than ever. Talks on freeing up agricultural trade are stuck as usual, and without a breakthrough there, little else can happen. Following recent inconclusive talks in London...
...investment bank. In the late 1990s, the government asked her to take over Cogema, a state-owned nuclear reprocessing company. Convinced that nuclear had a big future, she orchestrated a merger with the other state-owned nuclear company, Framatome, which built plants and mined uranium, to create the French colossus. She has sought to create a positive image for the firm, and for nuclear energy in general, by sponsoring the French yacht in the America's Cup race and by launching a worldwide corporate-branding campaign that uses animated figures set to the 1980 disco hit Funkytown. The intended message...
...remains the 800-pound gorilla of the mutual fund world, with $1.1 trillion of assets under management. But fund companies like Vanguard and American Funds are growing faster, which is why Fidelity this week intensified its makeover by replacing the manager of its most visible fund, the $52 billion colossus Magellan. Market-lagging Robert Stansky, who had headed the fund since 1996, has been replaced by Harry Lange, former manager of the Fidelity Capital Appreciation Fund...
...Benz has been the brand of choice for generations of celebrities, both actual and aspiring, from the late Pope John Paul II to Scarlett Johansson. It's a brand mystique most competitors can only dream about, and it has turned Mercedes, part of the DaimlerChrysler conglomerate, into an industry colossus with annual sales of more than 1 million cars and revenues exceeding $60 billion...
...Kitty was a huge proto-Buffy. I mean, there was no other you could point to as strongly. And they weren't really doing anything with her, which, you know, made me happy to no end. And when they asked me to bring Colossus back, there I had Kitty and her first love. It was actually terribly romantic, to me anyway. I think I care way too much about these characters...