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...With fuel prices likely to remain high and awareness of the environment growing globally, small, efficient cars are beginning to gain traction not just in Japan but all over the world. For example, DaimlerChrysler plans next year to begin selling its two-passenger Smart mini in the SUV-loving U.S. At the same time, most of the world's major automakers expect to produce low-cost subcompact cars for growing middle classes in China, India and other developing countries. Yet the market for kei is likely to remain largely restricted to Japan. That's partly because profit margins...
...Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani, top right, who would be the first-ever non-U.S. bank chief; Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer (a U.S. citizen), middle; and former U.S. Trade Rep Robert Zoellick. One candidate from 2005, when Wolfowitz got the job, who hasn't gotten much traction this go-round: ex--HP CEO Carly Fiorina...
...Such views have little traction in the Shi'ite villages of the eastern Bekaa Valley where Toufeili lives. Local residents openly mock the stubborn cleric, accusing him of being on the payroll of Hizballah's opponents. Small wonder, then, that he rarely leaves his home, and that his bodyguard rarely leaves his side...
...with Royal's often vague, confused and gaffe-prone campaign. Pollsters had expected that Bayrou's pre-spring bloom would have withered by now - after all, his centrist Union for a Democratic France (UDF) has only 5% of the seats in the National Assembly. Instead, he has found real traction with his challenge to the endless left-right battle that, he says, has locked French politics into an ideological echo-chamber. Most polls give Bayrou 19% of the vote, putting Royal's lead over him well within the margin of error...
...While the new government and its platform are unlikely to sway the U.S. and Israel, it may yet gain traction because of doubts among other stakeholders that continuing the blockade will yield a positive result. And the fact that it comes tied to a renewed Saudi-led Arab peace process, one which both the U.S. and Israel have pondered exploring further, may raise the temptation to engage the new Palestinian government, imperfect as it may be, and closely monitor its behavior and its evolution...