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...some hold radical ideas that are incompatible with fundamental values held by the West. In the face of worldwide Muslim violence, the West has an obligation to defend the freedom of speech; wariness of terrorism by Islamic groups has, quite understandably, risen since 9/11 but Western representative organizations cannot shrink from defending their values and Mr. Rasmussen and the EU must be commended for their valiant refusal...
...supersize profits of their SUVs (light trucks, technically), which just a decade ago earned profit margins as high as 25%. Ford was an innovator with its Explorer model and just kept making them bigger. Meanwhile, the Japanese started making good SUVs too, and the competition made the profit margins shrink. When the price of gas soared, SUV sales tanked, and the U.S. companies were caught without money spinners. Ford stopped making the four-ton Excursion, which had been criticized as a gas-hungry dreadnought. GM's solution, "employee pricing" for everyone, gave away the store. Ford had to match...
...trio figured if they outsourced--a no-brainer given India's inexpensive software talent and Sethuraman's contacts--development would cost $150,000. Or so they thought. The first Indian company they worked with didn't measure up. India is more focused on business applications than shrink-wrapped software, so they realized they had to run the project themselves. But to do it in Greensboro meant raising $3.2 million. Their business plan was sound, but it was 2001, just after the dotcom bust, and investors weren't buying. Again they looked to India for a solution, but this time resolved...
...take the risk? Efforts to shrink Cody's two Berkeley locations into profitability had failed, so Ross decided that to make money, one must spend money. Together with an accountant friend, Ross projected that sales from a San Francisco store would make the business profitable. "Even if we're off by 20%," Ross says, "we still break even and we pay back the loan." That loan wasn't easy to come by. Ross says he was rejected by six banks before an independent lender, Summit Bank in Oakland, agreed to put up $1.9 million. "I had to get help from...
...Earth. The selection is atrocious (understandable in a former Dutch colony that has more than 350 languages and dialects of its own to cater to), and if you do manage to strike gold, chances are you won't be able to flip through your selections because they will be shrink-wrapped. But all that looks set to change with the success of Aksara (www.aksara.com). The independent bookseller is zeroing in on the niche markets of Jakarta's middle classes and catering to tastes once served only by retailers in nearby Singapore. With three stores in the Indonesian capital, Aksara...