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...their homework by candlelight, and factories have had to buy diesel generators to produce their own electricity. Last year, during the worst of the blackouts, traffic lights went dark and newspapers ran special sections listing which districts would be affected that day?a situation that is likely to repeat itself in the next few weeks as the mercury rises and air-conditioners are activated. "The people here have worked hard for 20 years to develop the economy," says Zhang, "and all of a sudden they've gone back to what it was like even before the country's market reforms...
...sold cheap TVs under the brand Goldstar, after the company's former name, Lucky-Goldstar. In 1995, LG purchased American TV maker Zenith Electronics Corp. and began using that moniker on its products. But four years later, Zenith filed for bankruptcy, a victim of cutthroat competition. To avoid a repeat of that failure, LG was content until recently to supply other companies with appliances that sell in the U.S. under their own brands. Chances are, the average American may own an LG-made product but not know it. LG says it sells 43% of all room air-conditioners...
Forget about tech in this exercise. Yes, tech stocks soared under Clinton, and Kerry plans to stimulate small-business and government demand for the latest gadgets. But (thankfully) another tech bubble is unlikely. No edge there. Other Clinton winners were financial and health-care stocks, which could repeat under Kerry. Ditto Clinton-era laggards like energy and utilities...
...Bush won the state by just 537 votes. Have the snafus been fixed? Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood has now told county supervisors that 47,000 more names are likely to be purged from the voter rolls this year, and election watchdogs fear that Florida is poised to repeat the mistakes of 2000 on a much larger scale...
That's a mistake George W. Bush has been careful not to repeat. Though he ran in 2000 on a platform as hard edged as any President's since, well, Reagan's, he was careful to style himself that year as a "compassionate conservative." One of Bush's recent campaign commercialsa girl watches her father raising an American flag as a narrator assures us that "America is turning the corner"--could be an outtake from Reagan's famous 1984 "Morning in America" campaign...