Word: globalitis
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...million people around the world watched some part of the season on television. That's why companies such as Korean electronics conglomerate LG Group are prepared to lay out "several hundred million dollars" to have their logo plastered all over F1, says Andrew Barrett, the company's VP of global sponsorship, who recently inked such a deal. "We were looking for as broad a global reach as we could get with one sport, and nothing else even came close." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Memories are short and people unforgiving. Before Toyota became a global presence, cars were unreliable and motors lasted a mere 100,000 km before a rebore. Toyota raised the standard to unprecedented heights. Now it has stumbled. I am willing to forgive and be grateful. I hope my 1985 Cressida will be recalled for its now broken window mechanism - its only fault. John Brandts-Giesen Rangiora, New Zealand...
...Take the issue of global warming. During the climate summit in Copenhagen in December, the biggest rifts were between the rich countries most responsible for global warming and the developing nations where its effects will be hardest felt. Representatives from poor countries attempted to raise the stakes by staging a walkout. But when a deal was finally struck, it was the major polluters - the U.S. and China - who dominated the discussion, not the world's smallest and least developed states...
...Expanding the U.K. election debate to people in the developing world could yield insights that ordinary British voters might not have. "Notoriously, at election time, nobody talks about global issues," says May Abdalla, who is coordinating the program in London. "It's all very parochial." There's even a chance the initiative could inspire a renewed interest in British democracy. "It's kind of re-energizing," says Onyeka Igwe, a documentary filmmaker in London who heard about the project on Facebook and plans to participate. "Giving up my vote actually makes me feel like my vote has more power than...
...China, you don’t feel like there’s a recession,” he said. “There’s something of a paradigm shift going on here and it’s tied to the shift in the global economy...