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...Gephardt and Senator Joe Lieberman are bookends, of a sort. Gephardt represents the decent past - the blue-collar, Roosevelt coalition, Midwestern populist, Old Democratic Party. Lieberman represents the recent past - the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...
Nothing in Wang's experience had prepared him for his U.S. venture. Like many other Chinese execs, he ad-libbed his way to the top, putting himself through engineering school and working his way up at Holley, then a low-tech but profitable state-run business. He has undeniable pluck--and he needed it when Holley nearly failed soon after he became chairman in 1987. Spurred by Beijing's calls for growth, he created two dozen units that were involved in everything from building roads to bottling water. Soon debts were nearly as big as assets, and the firm...
...half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest for Mavi. State-of-the-art production facilities at Cerkezkoy gave Mavi the edge they needed. Unlike other global brands which outsource to many different manufacturers, controlling its own flexible, high-tech production plant means Mavi can afford to tweak each pair of jeans to accommodate different tastes in different countries. Turks are shorter than North Americans, Canadians prefer slimmer cuts, and Germans are fastidiously fashion-conscious. "We don't try to push the same product to different markets," says Ersin Akarlilar...
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