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...cost: $700 billion to $1 trillion over 10 years. To pay for it, Kerry would roll back Bush's tax cuts for people earning more than $200,000, which would probably fall short of the final bill...
...tied by a shrinking U.S. market, the Marlboro Man is setting his sights on China. Altria Group's Philip Morris International will soon produce the world's best-selling cigarette in the world's largest tobacco market. China's more than 300 million smokers consumed 1.75 trillion cigarettes last year, but foreign sales accounted for only about 5% of these because of government restrictions. The venture with Fujian province's Longyan Cigarette Factory will make Marlboros widely available in China. But Big Tobacco's China dreams have gone up in smoke before. In 1986 R.J. Reynolds formed a $31 million...
Halle has a long way to go before it lifts itself off the bottom of Germany's prosperity list, and one science park does not amount to a new Industrial Revolution. Since unification, Germany has spent on the former East a staggering $1.46 trillion, much of it squandered, but Halle's high-tech development shows that not all of it was wasted. The presence of world-class companies like Probiodrug proves that even the most downtrodden town can shake off years of lethargy and begin a comeback. If Halle can do it, can the rest of Germany be far behind...
...endorse a specific candidate. "I believe that most of our messages are social messages and human messages," he says, "and to the degree that you read them as political, they invariably get discounted." For many people reading Cole's latest print ads, however--such as "With the new $1 trillion deficit, our leaders must think our future doesn't count"--the difference between political and social seems largely semantic...
...consumers spent $128 billion at kiosks last year, an 80% jump from the year before, according to IHL Consulting Group. By 2007, that figure could hit $1.3 trillion. Companies like the technology because kiosks let them save on labor costs. Forrester Research, a consulting firm, calculates that airlines save $3.52 for every customer who uses a kiosk instead of a live agent at the check-in counter...