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Mazzoleni calls it a “hammer.” Tom Cavanagh thinks it’s closer to a “blast.” Others lean toward “cannon...
...interactive gewgaws. Netheads were horrified when, in January 2001, the site began charging several hundred pounds a year to subscribe. Worst of all, it had the audacity to sell its content to that antediluvian medium, the daily newspaper: eight papers across Europe now run Breakingviews content. The result: a lean staff of 10 journalists who churn out a few finely crafted nuggets of financial insight a day. And a few hundred companies willing to pay as much as €73,453 a year for their employees to read them. What's next? Dixon says he'd love to expand...
...picking a full-size SUV are that it seats more people and that the size makes them feel safe (a misperception that SUV manufacturers aren't eager to correct). Similarly, the switch among a minority of SUV buyers to crossovers probably reflects a simple shift in priorities during lean, uncertain times: we want fuel economy and safety wrapped in SUV trimmings. Says Shosteck: "The market is showing that consumers want more of the attributes of an SUV, with the handling and ride and the comfort of a passenger sedan...
...enough of lean cuisine? Get ready to savor the dessert restaurant, which offers multi-course meals consisting of nothing but sweets. At Sugar, a swanky dessert bar in Chicago, a menu might include a palate-cleansing roasted-quince-in-cider soup ($6), followed by pomegranate gelatin with tangerine sorbet ($6) and Macdeth by Chocolate ($15). Boston's Finale does offer "pre-dessert" items, such as salads, but they're slipped onto the back of the menu so that diners can focus on delicacies like a Chocolate Indulgence tasting plate for two ($30). The sweet tooth has also migrated overseas. Espai...
Meanwhile, the global economy should start to perk up now that companies around the world have used three lean years to shed fat and restructure. Foreign stocks were hit harder and are cheaper relative to earnings potential than stocks in the U.S. "The U.S. has to turn first," says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, because it remains the world's leading economy. "But then Europe and Asia will move further, faster," he predicts. His favorite regions are parts of Europe--notably Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands--Hong Kong and South Korea, and emerging markets Thailand, Malaysia...