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...demands Samak's ouster but it isn't entirely sure who should lead the country should he resign. The feisty PM has refused to step down, even if he can no longer work at his own office. The impasse has brought parts of the country to a halt. PAD mobs forced three airports in key tourist areas to shutter, and strikes in support of the opposition have hampered rail services. The country's benchmark stock index has dropped nearly 25% since the protest movement began in late May. In the heart of Bangkok, pro- and anti-government forces are teetering...
...demanding 400 acres back. The issue has been smoldering for almost two years, but the protests reached an intense pitch last month, until finally on Sept. 2, Chairman Ratan Tata decided that he could not keep running a factory under police protection. He announced that production at Singur would halt indefinitely, and the company would look for a new site in another state...
...issues aside, Garel Rhys, an emeritus professor of automotive economics at Cardiff Business School, says, "Audi's closing the gap quickly." Five years ago, Audi wasn't competitive, but now it outsells BMW in several European markets. Nagley's not sure there's much that BMW can do to halt that design-driven momentum. "It's not been able to stop Audi in Germany, the U.K. and the rest of the world, so why should it be able to stop it in America...
...December. (McCain, it should be noted, missed all eight of those votes - a record that doesn't jibe well with his campaign promises to pursue an aggressive alternative energy program along with offshore drilling.) Without those tax credits, the renewable energy industry "is grinding to a halt," says Peter Duprey, CEO of the North American arm of the Spanish renewable company Acciona Energy, which has a 64-megawatt solar thermal plant operating outside Las Vegas, and recently launched a 180-megawatt wind farm on the border between North Dakota and South Dakota. "Everyone says America is the land of opportunity...
Whether or not a renewed Cold War works in Moscow's favor in the long term remains to be seen. Moscow may not be able to halt expanding NATO, as former members of the Warsaw Pact do not seem less eager to join the Western Alliance. While Putin and his troops have succeeded in lashing out at Georgia, such action against former Warsaw Pact allies like the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland - all now NATO members - would be suicidal. But for the near term, the Putin Doctrine is now in play...