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...MAKIKO TANAKA The fiery Foreign Minister?nicknamed "Troublemaker"?is the last person Koizumi needs to handle the weakest part of his portfolio, foreign policy. She has infuriated career diplomats and bureaucrats and muffed some basic diplomatic forays Koizumi's plan: He can't dump her; she's too popular inside Japan. So he'll send her on more overseas trips and lean on her to tone down the trash talk Outlook: O.K. Nobody in Japan really cares about foreign policy, so Tanaka provides an entertaining, if raucous, diversion...
...weakest U.S. economy in a decade limps into fall, there?s at least one American consumer that economists won?t have to worry about: Pittsburgh resident Kathleen Kearney, who had her country in mind Thursday when she claimed $73.7 million in Powerball winnings. "I guess we'll help the economy somewhat," she said...
...year chasing customers with profit-raiding discounts, aren?t taking any chances that shoppers will last long enough to come through for them this time around. Many stores are frantically deferring orders and paring offerings in anticipation of an even worse Christmas shopping season than last year - perhaps the weakest since, well, the last recession. "I think the full effect of these layoff announcements will take effect in the second half," PricewaterhouseCoopers senior retail economist Frank Badillo told the Wall Street Journal. Leaving the American consumer either too scared or too jobless to keep whistling past the graveyard and directly...
...WEAKEST LINK Who says? To cut down on competition, contestants more often kick off the strongest link--like George Wendt...
...where she could cut the ribbon." Foreign investors are concerned that Megawati may appoint her husband's business cronies rather than solid professionals to the government's key economic jobs. Indonesia owes $140 billion in foreign debt, inflation is nearing double digits, and the rupiah is one of the weakest currencies in the region. Corruption remains rife. Many foreign companies have left, angered by a constant hassle for bribes. A Western insurance executive was jailed last December under false charges and soon found out why: a senior police officer came to his cell demanding he hand over his company...