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...will likely feature a lunar landing - was a reminder of the country's growing national might. "There are problems, yes, but the message of this is that the [Communist] Party has the right control policy because of all it has done," says Dean Cheng, China analyst with the CNA Corp., a U.S.-based think tank. Says Joan Johnson-Freese, a space expert at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.: "The Chinese have read the Apollo playbook. They understand everything the U.S. got from its lunar program...
...interviews were conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Sept. 28-30, 2008. The Florida, Minnesota and Missouri polls have an error margin of 3.5 percentage points among likely voters. The Nevada and Virginia surveys have an error margin of 4 points...
...course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty $7.6 billion; by 2002, Conseco...
...interviews were conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Sept. 21-23, 2008. Among likely voters, all five polls have an error margin of 3.5 percentage points...
...When Hyman Golden co-founded the Snapple Beverage Corp. in 1972, the company took its name from one of its first products--a carbonated apple soda drink. After building its product line and name recognition in New York through pervasive "Snapple Lady" television ads and the introduction of flavored teas, the company became nationally known, earning $700 million in annual sales before being purchased by Quaker Oats Co. in 1994. Raised in Queens, N.Y., Golden earned his keep in pre-Snapple days by working as a window washer with his Romanian father and later as a business broker...