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...economic slowdown, we were prospering," says Jason Hart, president of Aldi U.S., based in Batavia, Ill. And now? "We're certainly getting a lot more attention." The privately held company generated an estimated $5.8 billion in U.S. sales last year, up from $5.3 billion in 2006, according to trade journal Supermarket News. Aldi now has about 950 stores in 29 states and plans to open more than 100 stores in the next two years in Connecticut, Missouri and Texas...
...There's an opening for Republicans, though, he said, if they focus on issues with which they have a common purpose - like taxes, trade and national security - and don't get bogged down on issues like gay marriage...
Even if Europe pulls back, the U.S. may be able to pick up the slack. Both presidential candidates support a national carbon cap-and-trade system, similar to that in place in Europe, and Barack Obama has pledged to invest $150 billion in clean tech over 10 years if he's elected President. The recent economic bailout leaves the next Administration with less to spend, but Obama at least thinks green investment will create new industries and jobs that can't be outsourced. He told TIME's Joe Klein that energy will be his No. 1 priority if he enters...
...unpaid workers striking in the cities. Now some enterprises are again failing to pay their workers, while others simply go out of business. But disruptive protests would contravene a new labor code passed under Putin in 2001, which sets tight restrictions on the forms of protest available to trade unions. But a Russian state that narrows the options of legal protest available to its people during a major national crisis may be courting serious trouble - it's certainly a principle that Czar Nicholas II failed to understand...
...Other local Republicans also cited classic G.O.P. principles, such as small government, free trade, and private property rights as reasons they vote for the party...