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During a four-hour flight delay at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, Norman Crowley battled boredom by putting his business acumen to use. Crowley is co- ceo of Inspired Gaming Group, a company whose software transforms analogue machines into digital ones. He and several coworkers found themselves staring at a Coke machine that attracted one [an error occurred while processing this directive] customer every 20 minutes. "We thought, this is crazy," it could be doing so much more. Crowley called an old friend, Clyde Pereira, the chief information officer at Coca-Cola HBC, the company's European distributor...
After several false starts and much delay, Europe has finally managed to crank up its economic growth engine. But how long before it once again sputters? Preliminary second-quarter [an error occurred while processing this directive] figures published by the E.U.'s statistics office last week showed that the 12 euro-zone countries, led by a resurgent Germany and France, enjoyed their strongest growth in six years, catching up with Britain, which continues to perform more robustly than even the prudent government anticipated. The 0.9% quarterly rise in the euro zone was fueled by a sequence straight...
...tender egos of her more senior colleagues. She shows up early for committee hearings even though her junior status means she is usually the last one to speak. Even more striking is the way she has reached across party lines--sponsoring foster-care legislation with Tom DeLay, then the House majority leader, and pushing health-care proposals with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Clintons' nemesis in their 1994 effort to reform health care. One of her closest friends in the chamber is South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who came to national attention as one of the House managers...
...DeLay on the Ballot The Texas G.O.P. needs a write-in Since courts have refused to take Tom DeLay's name off the November ballot, the Texas G.O.P. has until Aug. 29 to find a write-in candidate--and then get voters to remember how to spell...
...delay in diplomatic engagement, the failure to press for an immediate cease-fire, the refusal to condemn Israel for heinous attacks on civilians and disruption of humanitarian relief: such tactics further reveal the Bush Administration's Middle East policy for the ethically bankrupt disaster it has always been. CHARLES BERGMAN Omaha...