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This is the flip side of the gargantuan trade deficits ($765 billion last year) that the U.S. is running, the result of high oil prices, Asian manufacturing prowess and our spend-and-borrow mentality. That leaves exporters like China the task of figuring out what to do with all those dollars. It's tougher than it sounds...
...Part of Rudd's early success is due to his strategic prowess and his party's obedience. Being a Howard critic was the first phase of Doing a Kevin. As ALP leader, Rudd has tried to exude a mainly positive message, and he's been able to control the agenda. Labor has settled on many of the issues that suit it and the times. It has rolled out bite-sized policy chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd...
Sustaining that appeal will only get harder, but Nike's mass-marketing prowess and global reach could give it an advantage over its golf-only competitors. Nike Golf is already well represented in major retailers, including sporting-goods chains, and is steadily adding accounts in golf-course pro shops, where its market penetration is about 50%. Nike Golf has opened 75 stores in China, and it has its eye on South Korea as well. To show that it can compete with the high-end service of its competitors, Nike plans later this year to provide custom fitting, a feature that...
...Iran's leaders believe North Korea forced the international community to sweeten its offers of aid and security guarantees by building and testing nuclear devices, Kerr says. He believes Tehran is probably bluffing and exaggerating its prowess in order to render moot the Western drive to preclude Iran from keeping any uranium-enrichment capability on its own soil...
Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, who was on the selection committee for the planning team, said that Gehry was added to the team for his creative approach to planning, not his architectural prowess...