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...institutions set up by the U.S. will never have credibility. Iraqis aren't stupid. They can spot a puppet government as easily as the rest of us. The option that must be explored is bringing in other-perhaps even Arab-countries or the U.N. to try to bridge the gap. That would involve cooperation with the rest of the world, and the Administration would have to give up any plan to have Iraq as an oil-rich client state. Dan Inch Liverpool, England...
...more obsessed with finding increasingly rare supplies of crude oil rather than worrying where to refine it. With all these distractions, oil companies didn't see the refining crunch coming, or preferred to look the other way. Even five years ago, there was still a large gap between global demand and refining capacity. Since then, the massive surge in oil consumption - driven mainly by China and India - has taken the industry by surprise and left the global economy vulnerable. Is there an easy fix? Obviously, building new refineries is one answer. French Finance Minister Thierry Breton last week told...
Only a company whose customers line up along Tokyo blocks clamoring for cheap casual chic would be comfortable predicting being "bigger than Gap." But Tadashi Yanai, CEO of parent company Fast Retailing, expects Uniqlo to reach $10 billion in sales by 2010, with 10% coming from the U.S. The haberdasher's son is introducing neighborhood concept stores--stocked with basics made with colorful Egyptian cotton and Mongolian cashmere--to three high-volume New Jersey malls, to add to Uniqlo's roughly 700 stores in Asia and Britain. Yanai talks big, but expansion failures in the London area...
...present concern at our plants around the world is the quality and cost of production. We're concerned with what level each factory is at so we can assess its capability. If there's any gap, we have to fill...
...named in recognition of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s conjecture that affirmative action will no longer be necessary after 25 years. Ogletree said he plans to conduct a series of summits in hopes of devising a strategy to close the achievement gap that exists between minority and non-minority students...