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...first impression can count for a lot. For a company's CEO, it may even predict his firm's success. Top executives who appear powerful and leaderlike at first glance are more likely to run profitable companies, according to a study by Tufts University psychologists published in the February issue of Psychological Science. By contrast, CEOs who seem likeable or trustworthy have...
...French experts predict the plan is likely to hit French Internet access providers with a small, universal per-client tax each month. A flat monthly surtax of just one euro on each of the nation's 16.1 million Internet accounts would raise around $290 million per year - or nearly 25% of the $1.2 billion in annual revenues public TV will lose to an advertising ban. It is conceivable, at least, that the monthly tax could go even higher without incurring too much consumer fury, since France currently enjoys one of the cheapest ISP markets in the developed world. Average monthly...
...Specifically, those inside the campaign and outside advisers fault Penn for failing to see the Iowa defeat coming. They say he was assuring Clinton and her allies right up until the caucuses that they would win it. Says one: "He did not predict in any way, shape or form the tidal wave we saw." In particular, he had assured them that Clinton's support among women would carry her through. Yet she managed to win only 30% of the women's vote, while 35% of them went for Obama...
...skewing the vote in its favor when she died. Nobody was expecting Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid (PML-Q) to receive a landslide; rather, Bhutto's report suggested, rigging would ensure that the government party would simply get enough votes to retain a majority in parliament. Analysts predict that if polls are indeed conducted with no manipulation, Bhutto's PPP will gain the most votes, followed by rival and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and finally Musharraf's party. If PPP and PML-N form a coalition under those circumstances, they could...
...When the Democrats last caucused in 2004, nearly 123,000 Democrats attended. Party officials predict that turnout could top 150,000 tonight...