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...fall primarily into two businesses. One is online content and search and the other is the development hardware devices. The company has not been able to duplicate the level of success that it has had in its software operations. The list of stories about Microsoft's failure to make progress in the search engine business stretches on and on. Not quite as well-chronicled are Microsoft's efforts to compete in the video game and portable multimedia player business. The Xbox has only started to make money recently and the margins are small. It was first introduced...
...Service” each semester, a day of volunteering in which Ellwood and some faculty have participated. And the Student Public Service Collaborative is pushing for more financial aid, although students say they realize this will be difficult in the current financial climate.But despite such changes, Ginsburg says substantial progress may be a long time coming.“The goal is not something you’re going to accomplish in one semester or one year,” he says. “It’s trying to establish something more systemic and fundamental than...
...hundred days is a long time, and although the presidential progress report serves as a general gauge for the direction of the country, most administrations don't achieve (or suffer) their greatest milestones until later. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Lewinsky scandal, Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb - they all fell outside the 100-day mark. Kennedy's deft handling of the Cuban missile crisis outweighed a number of disasters (Bay of Pigs) and minor setbacks (Russia's first-man-in-space triumph) that marked his first 100 days. And while Nixon's presidency started off smoothly...
...expanding the private sector, allowing greater scope for unfettered capitalism. But in recent years, the pendulum has begun to swing the other way. Many of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have grown into giants, eclipsing the relatively young, private companies that have contributed heavily to the country's progress. That trend is being reinforced as China implements economic stimulus measures that in practice boost state-owned giants while private companies are left largely to fend for themselves. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...Huang says the trend is worrisome, partly because it could undo progress made in freeing up China's economy. "In the short run, the numbers may look good ... (but) a year or two from now, if China only relies on the state sector to drive growth, the fundamental distortions in the Chinese economy today will get worse...