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...pacify the whole country. We are there to support the [Afghan] government taking its own responsibilities. Wouldn't you like to have more troops? Yes, I can always wish for more. NATO needs more forces because we have an ambition to go [into western Afghanistan, where there has been unrest in the city of Herat]. If I look into the more distant future, [calls on NATO's] participation or leadership will increase, not diminish. NATO's performance will be more and more judged on the way it's running its operations. We need very close relations with...
...influence on the mass market, and many ideas eventually trickle down to the mainstream. In this special issue of TIME, we explore the changing perception of luxury through the eyes of those who define it as well as those who buy it. Today, despite the general state of unrest in the world, the global luxury-goods business is booming--up 27.7% in the U.S. and 56.2% in Hong Kong in the first five months of this year. Although it's hard to predict how long the boom will last, most analysts agree that where the stock market goes, so goes...
Despite rising interest rates, staggering energy prices (gasoline has climbed 30% in the U.S. in the past year) and the general state of unrest in the world, conspicuous consumption is back. According to a study by the Italian association Altagamma, U.S. sales of high-end goods grew 27.7% in the first five months of this year, and consumer confidence is way up, hitting a two-year high in July...
...tough guy ready to impose draconian measures to quell the country's relentless violence. Yet taking the fight all the way to the golden-domed Imam Ali shrine, where al-Sadr's men were dug in, could spark uncontrollable rage among the country's majority Shi'ite population. Unrest had quickly spread across the Shi'ite south and into Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slums. Washington sensed that a critical turning point had been reached: a widening conflagration would not only be devastating to the U.S. effort to bring some order to Iraq, but it would also be sure...
...crude soaring. With growth in global demand at a 24-year high and supply overstretched, any hint of disruption becomes a market mover. Oil prices hit $46.65 per bbl. last week - the highest in the 21-year history of New York Mercantile Exchange futures - amid fears of political unrest in the wake of oil-rich Venezuela's recall referendum on President Hugo Chávez. The soaring price might not signal a return to the 1970s oil shocks, but it was enough to cause stock markets to tumble and prompt economic leaders to warn of the threat to global economic...