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Where nothing else works, there's always political pressure. In India, airline Jet Airways reversed a decision to lay off 1,900 staff after the government made its displeasure known - and weeping victims melted Chairman Naresh Goyal's heart. "I could not sleep at night," Goyal confessed at a press conference. "I was mentally disturbed when I saw tears in their eyes." Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said he told Goyal that "the ministry would certainly not be very happy with the approach of Jet Airways." Something similar happened in France last month when the French oil company Total announced...
...task. No president, at least in a democracy, has the ability to tell citizens what to believe. What is in the president’s power, however, is to challenge those who listen to him—but Obama is still too hesitant to do so. During a recent press conference, for example, he essentially dismissed a question from NBC correspondent Chuck Todd. Todd asked why, if past presidents had had the power to call for some form of sacrifice, Obama did not ask for something specific now, especially since he purports to seek...
...Obama told the press conference that he hoped his first meeting with Russia's President, Dimitri Medvedev, in the afternoon would address what Obama called "the drift in the U.S.-Russia relationship." "There are very real differences. I have no interest in papering these over," he said, adding that on the issue of nuclear nonproliferation, he saw one of the strongest areas of common ground...
...Whether that reset button proves effective remains to be seen, but in his first international appearance since his election, Obama certainly reset White House relations with the famously cynical British press, many of whom surreptitiously took pictures and video on their cell phones as he spoke. He charmed them by giving real consideration to journalists' questions. He wouldn't say when he thought the hard times would end, but he urged sensible financial planning ("Basing decisions around fear is not the right way to go"). He also said he loved the Queen - he and the First Lady will meet...
...asked President Barack Obama directly about the elephant in the room on Wednesday. But he brought it up anyway, during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A British reporter asked Obama about the proper size of government stimulus spending, and the U.S. President decided to talk about the perilous balance of global trade...