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...Senate races in Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. In every one of these races, the majority of Facebook users supported the Democratic candidate. Although Facebook does not claim to be a reliable predictive tool, its members got their way in all but Tennessee, where Democratic candidate Harold E. Ford Jr. lost to Republican Bob P. Corker.Candidates could edit their profiles created by Facebook administrators, said employee Brandee Barker. Virginia’s Senate winner, Democrat Jim Webb, listed “Faith, Family, Country” as his interests, while the wall of Ohio’s winner, Democrat...
...months of this year, foreign direct investment in Vietnam was estimated at $6.5 billion, surpassing the $6.1 billion total for all of last year.) "The WTO is sort of the stamp of approval that many, many large companies have been waiting for," says Tim Tucker, country manager for Ford Vietnam, which has an assembly plant outside Hanoi. "They are just going to flood into this country...
Even by China's skewed standards, the surge of foreign interest in launching and managing hotels is astounding. "It's stratospheric," says Patrick Ford, president of Lodging Econometrics, an industry research group based in Portsmouth, N.H. "China is the most attractive place in the world right now for hotels. That's why investment capital is racing there and why the major international brands are racing there too." Indeed, 310 new hotels are under construction in China, says Ford, and 210 of them are four- or five-star offerings with more than 200 rooms. Even if some of these projects aren...
...also providing the requisite quality of service. "You can knock off Prada or Montblanc," says Ralph Grippo, China manager for the Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees. "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe-to-toe with Marriott," he says, or other big chains such as Hyatt, Hilton and Westin. "They just don't have the brand name or international drawing power...
...Baker's study group) as well as their soft-spoken and clear-minded longtime colleague Robert Gates, who has now been tapped to be Defense Secretary. In addition, the intellectual godfather of contemporary realists, Henry Kissinger, who was the whipping boy of the original neocons during the Ford Administration, has also been weighing in with his emphasis on an unsentimental calculation of America's strategic interests...