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...exposed the party as hoary and clannish, with no creative agenda beyond nationalist scaremongering about the euro and asylum seekers. Voters didn't go for it, just as Germans have turned away from the periodic Euro-skeptic and anti-immigrant noises made on the right. The center-right's lurch toward nationalism has disheartened libertarians who believe the free movement of people and capital are core conservative principles. And corruption scandals in numerous countries have damaged conservative credibility...
This week's move promises to leave many College students and other customers in the lurch if the company proves unable to pay customers for items they bought--and for which they now expect payment...
...week before the end of the longest sit-in in Harvard history, Al Sharpton, one of New York's most prominent protest organizers, left Institute of Politics (IOP) planners in the lurch for the second straight week...
...rear brake. Customers there got free repairs. Chinese owners did not. Only after a Chinese government-affiliated consumers' group filed suit did Mitsubishi agree to pay compensation. Similarly, Toshiba offered free repairs and compensation for faulty laptop computers sold in the U.S. while Chinese buyers were left in the lurch. "Such behavior by the Japanese has harmed the reputation of Japanese business and lowered their products' prestige," says Yang Jiankun, secretary-general of the Chinese Consumers Association. A recent poll on one Chinese website found that 83% of the 7,584 respondents no longer prefer Japanese products because they think...
...members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn (so to speak) of television and film in the United States. If their contracts expire before a settlement is reached, the unions will go on strike—leaving movie theaters nationwide in the lurch and turning the television test pattern into the latest ingenue...