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...Stake out any new, high-profile policy positions that are out of synch with the presidential candidate...
...same places collaborate on factory monitoring. Six months later Levi Strauss followed, and today is working with 15 other firms in 130 factories. Resources that once went to monitoring are now used on training overseas management, says Kobori, helping to create an environment in which factories have a bigger stake in how they are run. Even before that, Levi Strauss was moving away from its old monitoring system, taking what Kobori calls "a more anthropological, fieldwork" approach to gathering information. Rather than merely interviewing managers, or speaking with employees inside the factory, monitors would seek out workers at bus stops...
...Iranians haven't been shy about making clear what's at stake. If the U.S. or Israel so much as drops a bomb on one of its reactors or its military training camps, Iran will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of Chinese Silkworm missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities. In the worst case scenario, seventeen million barrels of oil would come off world markets...
Similar thinking is behind Mainetti's purchase. He has been building his Michelangelo Fund around investments in so-called trophy properties, which have historical or architectural value beyond the typical calculation of location and square footage. In 2005, he bought a 27% stake in the company that owns the Chrysler Building. A year later he acquired a minority share in the Flatiron, which today is valued at a total of $180 million. With the latest deal, he holds a 53% share of the famous building. "The Flatiron is expensive, but with the [cheap] dollar, it made sense to increase...
...reason may well be that Chavez "realizes his long-term political survival is at stake," says Larry Birns, head of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. "Right now, being a radical is not where the votes are" in a country that, despite its vast oil wealth, is wrestling with high inflation and even higher rates of violent crime. Chavez suffered a rare but stinging defeat last year in a referendum on constitutional amendments that would have broadened his socialist agenda and eliminated presidential term limits. Now, he appears determined to prevent his once feckless opposition from dealing...