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...revenues (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors, ranging from Sharp televisions to Kodak digital cameras, in virtually all its product lines. Most humiliating: Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files--a gap that Apple's iPod has exploited masterfully. The company has been in turmoil ever since April 2003's "Sony shock," when it announced drastically lower sales and earnings. Its stock has dropped 66% over the past five years...
...country's rapid and chaotic economic growth. One of the important goals President Hu Jintao set for this year's congress is to promote a "harmonious society" by finding ways to address the populace's many grievances while bolstering central Party authority over the provinces. The widening gap between China's rich and poor?evident in a sharp rise in public demonstrations against government corruption, labor strife and other civil disturbances?may threaten Party rule, higher-ups fear. "When the leadership starts talking about harmony," says Wu Guogang, professor of political science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia...
Junior midfielder Jake Samuelson fed freshman attackman Zach Widbin the ball, who then fired an underhanded shot to the far-side for Harvard’s third goal of the game, closing the gap...
Kelley has possibly done more than anyone to bridge the gap between modern design and modern business. After graduating from Stanford in 1978 (as a self-described "lousy" mechanical engineer), he created--among other things--the very first Apple computer mouse and the light-up LAVATORY OCCUPIED sign used on Boeing 747s. In 1991 his company merged with ID Two, designer of the first laptop, to form Ideo. During the heady high-tech 1990s, the firm became the hottest product-design shop in Silicon Valley, working with the biggest names in business, churning out hundreds of supremely user-friendly designs...
...done on a larger scale in rural areas similar to Sauri? With a population of some 33 million people, of whom two-thirds are in rural areas, Kenya would need annual investments on the order of $1.5 billion for its Sauris, with donors filling most of that financing gap, since the national government is already stretched beyond its means. Instead, donor support for investment in rural Kenya is perhaps $100 million, or a mere one-fifteenth of what is needed. And Kenya's debt service to the rich world is several hundred million dollars per year. Kenya's budget...