Word: popularizers
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...sold just 80 of them. CEO Wang Chuanfu expects that BYD will lower the price to about $16,000 as the company scales up production. BYD also makes small gasoline-powered cars and is having no trouble selling them. In March alone, 20,000 units of the most popular model, the F5, were sold...
...vary widely—from compromised academic standards in the college institutions, to the psychological pressures placed on young athletes by parents and coaches at the high school level or even before. What cannot be denied is its successful role as a conveyor belt of American talent; as a popular and competitive system encouraging sporting excellence, many have attributed Team USA’s Olympic successes to the sizeable investments made by universities in guaranteeing prestige and varsity sporting successes.This development, ensuring the creation of a highly professional environment combining sporting and scholastic pursuits, has seen America become a beacon...
...surprisingly, having Royal deliver an apology for a nation presumably shamed by the words of its own president caused Sarkozy's fellow conservatives to hit the roof. Dominique Paillé, a spokesman for Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party, charged it was in fact "the behavior of Madame Royal that dishonors France." Citing the Elysée's denial that Sarkozy ever made the comments, Paillé argued that Royal's saying sorry for them "tarnishes our nation's image abroad for reasons that were false." On Saturday, another UMP spokesman...
...Though most leftists were pleased to see Sarkozy squirm during the international press storm his reported swipes at fellow leaders set off, few approved of Royal's apology on behalf of a nation that had said "no thanks" to her offer to lead it. (Read "Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy...
...Meanwhile, a flurry of polls find the once popular Royal now badly trailing most Socialist Party leaders as the best person to take Sarkozy on for the presidency in 2012. But that, French political analysts agree, is precisely why Royal has chosen such an explosive method of reacting to Sarkozy. Sure, the immediate fall-out may earn her criticism from fellow pols and the public alike - but the alternative would be to do nothing for the next three years, and risk people forgetting that she and her presidential ambitions exist...