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...effort counted for a lot. Rather than deriding shows of respect to foreign representatives and attempting to extract unsupported conclusions, one should view the president’s choice as one that is an exercise in building goodwill. His decision to bow was a wise choice, not a weak...
...prevent the then isolated Naxal insurgency from foraying into underdeveloped forest and jungle regions in central and eastern India where it gained support of impoverished tribal groups and villagers. By 2001, some Naxalites had gained sway over 51 districts, and with the state response mechanism to their movements still weak, that number quadrupled in less than a decade. Naxals now operate in 223 districts, spread out over one-third of India along a vertical belt commonly referred to as the Red Corridor...
...former general argued that few in North Korea can understand how economically weak the country is until they escape to other nations...
...meltdown in the credit markets, the housing collapse, the weak U.S. dollar and depressed consumer confidence have all taken a particularly harsh toll on small businesses. Many small companies rely on credit cards for capital because they don't have access to debt or equity capital as public companies do, and many are seeing these credit lines trimmed or even pulled altogether by skittish banks...
...housing turmoil and the weak dollar have weighed heavily on small business as demand for building contractors, which are often smaller businesses, dried up in the housing bust, and the cost of importing raw materials like copper for contracting work has risen due to the weak U.S. dollar. Large companies with overseas operations have an easier time hedging against those risks...