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...massage chairs - and dangled the possibility of a quick and lucrative payoff. Cracking the energy sector, with its powerful incumbent companies and forbiddingly high capital costs, requires a more patient investor. "There may be some VCs willing to finance a $100 million project plant, but most can't," says Howard Berke, a veteran tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the solar company Konarka. "It could mean a longer [wait] for returns than what early-stage venture capitalists are accustomed...
...farm on getting new faces to sacrifice an hour and a half of their time to argue politics with their neighbors have more often seen their campaign hopes stay home. While Jimmy Carter and Gary Hart both brought in significant numbers of new faces, many more candidates, such as Howard Dean, have failed in spectacular fashion...
...members have contributed to the group’s efforts. “While many informed persons mutter about the inequities and wrong-headedness of the current college admissions procedure, almost no one has taken the crucial step from complaint to constructive action,” wrote education professor Howard E. Gardner ’65 in an endorsement posted on the group’s Web site. “I hope that many schools will join Lloyd Thacker’s efforts to create an admissions process that embodies our core educational values,” he said...
...John Howard worked tirelessly as an M.P. for 33 years and our Prime Minister for almost 12. His list of achievements far outweighed his mistakes. While the far left will be celebtrating his defeat for months, the fact is that he lost because Australians wanted a change and Kevin Rudd campaigned brilliantly, offering a low-risk "me too" alternative but with sharp differences from unpopular Howard policies, particularly industrial relations, where his campaign was helped by a multimillion-dollar campaign by the trade union movement. Howard will be remembered as an outstanding PM who ultimately outstayed his welcome. Good luck...
...Your article on Australia's Kevin07 election was thought-provoking. Just one question remains: After Sir Robert Menzies' reign as the longest-serving Australian PM, the Liberal Party tried a series of leaders without electoral success. John Howard was the country's second-longest-serving PM. Now that his heir apparent Peter Costello has declined to stand as opposition leader, will we see history repeating itself? Murray Hunter, Waitakere city, new zealand...