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...ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, scheduled to be held next week in Jordan, is a calculated gamble. It is designed to revive of a peace process, and realize the pledge made by President Bush to Arab and European allies ahead of the Iraq invasion that he would invest his own political capital in a renewed peace effort. And it will almost certainly raise expectations of close and consistent engagement by the Bush White House in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - a course the administration has studiously avoided until...
...Fear Factor). They're called upfronts because they're designed to entice advertisers to pay billions up front for next season's ads, and the deals are lubricated by cocktails and carpaccio at posh afterparties. It's essentially a TV stock market, in which the moneymen hope to invest in hits-to-be on their...
...unsound foundations without the managerial knowledge taught in the master's courses," says Gerhard Bosch, vice president of the Institute for Labor and Technology in Gelsenkirchen. "A spate of bankruptcies will be the consequence." Bosch also fears that few of these new and probably under-capitalized handicraft businesses will invest in vocational training, thus endangering the future of the crafts tradition itself. And Heinz Putzhammer, a DGB board member, thinks ditching the Meisterbrief may be poor marketing. Putzhammer says the Meisterbrief is "indispensable as a recognized seal of quality of the German handicraft sector." Clement is unfazed. Although he admits...
...Arthur Ally, 61, president of the Timothy Plan, a group of eight "biblically based, pro-life, pro-family" funds. Based in Winter Park, Fla., and founded in 1994, Timothy has about $150 million in assets and roughly 12,000 shareholders. Ally will invest in no firm he feels is involved in promoting or financing abortion, pornography or "the homosexual agenda." He also shuns alcohol, tobacco and gaming stocks. (Military contractors are O.K.; even the Prince of Peace, says Ally, believed in self-defense...
...keiretsu system, in which suppliers bond with manufacturers for the long haul. By no means is the system perfect; Nissan nearly went bankrupt in the late 1990s because of cronyism and other inefficiencies in its keiretsu. But suppliers, in both the U.S. and Japan, have been more willing to invest in equipment to manufacture new technologies--such as hybrid electric-gasoline engines--out of confidence that Japanese automakers won't abandon them, or the technology, before they can recoup costs. The Big Three now want to outsource more R. and D. to suppliers, but Detroit has made low cost...