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Hiroshi Take, one of the managers of Sharp Corp.'s latest and most advanced television factory, beams like a proud father. The gleaming white $1.4 billion Kameyama factory, 260 miles southwest of Tokyo, came online last year and is cranking out thousands of Sharp's hot-selling large-screen flat-panel Aquos TVs per month. Flat TVs are going to be critical in the battle for market share among electronics companies this Christmas season, and Sharp is exceptionally well armed...
...politicians in the head and shake them!" shouts Andrzej Kuzmicki, 40, owner of an underwear company in the northeastern city of Bialystok. "We need real change." Tusk and his Civic Platform say they're offering just that. He's been campaigning hard on promises to bring in a 15% flat tax on corporate and personal income, ease the rules for hiring and firing, and radically streamline government bureaucracy - though he's stopped short of suggesting specific spending cuts. Policies like these would suit Kuzmicki just fine. He saw his exports of lingerie rise 700% last year, but says "economic policy...
...parliament as senior partner in a coalition with the Kaczynskis' party. That alliance could be fraught with tensions. Fractious coalitions are hardly unusual in Polish politics, but Civic Platform leaders may find the Law and Justice Party an especially restless bedfellow. In addition to the rift over the flat tax, Kaczynski says he'll push for a more "social" economic policy, and limit privatization in sectors deemed vital to the "security of the state." There could be personal, as well as policy, differences, too. There was some early friction last week when Kaczynski said that if the Civic Platform took...
...surely will change our lives, but no one is quite sure how. Big Internet players know they can't ignore VOIP, even at the risk of stumbling around as they figure out how to make it work for particular businesses. VOIP's young upstarts have already caught the giants flat-footed. Major telephone companies, for example, dismissed VOIP as something too unwieldy for the average consumer. With Vonage now celebrating 1 million consumer subscribers, AT&T and Verizon are racing to offer competing services...
...think we came out a little flat. They were pretty fired up, and they took advantage of some defensive mistakes,” Burmeister said. “Once we got our bearings, I would say that we did a really good...