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...starts shrinking. Take the auto industry. Toyota is weathering the recession far better than its American counterparts not just because it has been making the fuel-efficient automobile customers wanted - though that helped a great deal - but because the Japanese giant makes a fetish out of efficiency. (The term for it in Japanese is kaizen, or continual improvement.) Even Wal-Mart, once environmental Enemy Number One, has made its Byzantine supply chain greener and more efficient - and spreading those values to its network of suppliers. The message is sinking in: a 2008 survey by Johnson Controls found that...
...again." However, Sanford and other conservative governors, like Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, Mississippi's Haley Barbour and Alaska's Sarah Palin - all of whom signed a statement last week against Obama's plan - fear that the moderates are selling out the GOP in the long run for a short-term spending orgy. They also object to what even moderate Republicans worry are cumbersome strings attached to the federal largesse. "I will oppose any stimulus package that results in federal control over state-administered programs," said Barbour. Sanford, who on Monday night had to listen to Obama in his White House...
After his two-term stint as President of Iran that ended in 2005, Mohammed Khatami appears reluctantly ready for act three. Known as the most liberal but least effective President since the Iranian revolution, Khatami put an end to months of widespread speculation surrounding his political comeback on Feb 8th by announcing his plan to run against incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's Presidential election in June...
...Despite the overwhelming support from the public for his policies, the Ayatollah Khameni's disapproval of Khatami's reform plans led to a deterioration of political and social freedoms towards the end of his second term, stalemating the rest of his political agenda...
...would have preferred to serve the Revolution in another position." -On his reluctance to run for re-election in 2001 after suffering crippling opposition from hard-line conservatives during his first term...