Word: investments
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...Further spooking investors are the Ministry of Commerce's proposed amendments to the Foreign Business Act, which could force thousands of international companies to change their shareholding structure if they wish to continue operating in Thailand. Currently, many foreign firms invest in Thailand by putting the majority of shares in the name of a local nominee who has little real authority. But the amendment, which could be announced as early as this month, may require local partners to have voting power commensurate to their shares. Already, according to Yoichi Kato, head of the Bangkok office of the Japan External Trade...
...best solution, says Chan, is the construction of more pathways. China's Internet population alone increased by 30% last year; at current growth rates, China is projected to reach maximum capacity on its current networks by 2008. More cable networks are in the works. One consortium plans to invest $500 million to lay the first transpacific cable directly linking China and the U.S., while another is planning a link between Southeast Asia and the U.S., bypassing Taiwan. Technology is also being developed for "smart" networks that could automatically allocate bandwidth where needed, making disaster recovery faster-but all operators would...
...Unlike doctors, drug companies are truly and primarily businesses. They invest billions and come up with many great, new products which cannot be sold, whatsoever, without convincing doctors to prescribe them. Billion-dollar businesses will influence lawmaking in every kind of governmental system. Reps move product, making money for the companies and their millions of stockholders. Powerful people will make sure that process is allowed to continue...
...skills of the early to mid 20th century. I speak of pitch, clarity, enunciation, the artfully natural wedding of lyric and melody, intellect and emotion - what used to be called singing. Ignore the lofty, dewy texts of these songs, if you want, and attend to the care the singers invest in the succession of notes, the chain of aural imagery. You might ask: Where has this been all my life...
...Here's my guess as to what happened. Harris is known to invest himself totally in the characters he creates; his agent, Mort Janklow, has spoken of the "terrible burdens" of producing these books. It's only natural that Harris would look for redeeming features in the psychopath who'd lived in his head for a quarter century. He may also have fallen under Hannibal's spell. (Novelist Martin Amis, who admires the first two Hannibal books, said Harris has lately "gone gay on" Lecter") Could it be that, like Clarice, he began Silence as Lecter's skeptical profiler...