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...launch before the crisis started, and we continued along our path," says Mario Polegato, the chairman and founder of GEOX, a $1.2 billion company (at current exchange rates) whose shares are listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. "In this economic situation, the best thing for a company is to offer innovative products. It's the only way out of the crisis." (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...Because of how green-conscious Cambridge residents tend to be, Attia said he expected a positive response to the initiative and increased business for the garage, which he said would compensate for the loss of revenue from the parking discount. Currently, the garage charges $34 for overnight parking and offers a ten percent discount for hybrids. The discounted rate for compact cars has not yet been determined. “I’m all for it,” said Jeff Meraj, a first year Harvard Kennedy School student who said he frequently parks his Honda Civic...
...Notre Dame provided the site several years ago for New York Governor Mario Cuomo to offer his infamous rationalization that, as a Catholic, he was personally opposed to abortion, but, as a public figure, he should not necessarily refuse to support it. Such a defense, mounted by every progressive Catholic politician since, clearly indicates that “truth” imposes no obligation if public opinion and the machinations of well-funded lobbyists are not fortuitously aligned. That shameful episode, a source of scandal to faithful Catholics even today, threatens to repeat itself...
...Canning Town in the mid-19th century. The Thames Ironworks Ship Building and Engineering Co. opened a 30-acre site at Bow Creek in 1846, bashing out ships for much of Europe. Eager for jobs, workers from all over the country poured in. The seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors. Behind one row of houses, Charles Dickens noted "a cesspool, bubbling and seething with the constant rise...
...important for Obama, who has made stabilizing Afghanistan a foreign policy priority, Tehran's offer lends unlikely international support to his new strategy for the country, unveiled last Friday. With the Taliban making inroads, allied casualties at their highest since the war began, and Al Qaeda still lurking in the remote border areas, the president's plan involves raising troop levels in Afghanistan and sharing the burden of rebuilding. The conference in The Hague - which included delegates from 70 nations - aims to internationalize reconstruction efforts...