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...During the election run-up, Yudhoyono said most of the right things, promising to create jobs, raise growth, build much-needed infrastructure, woo foreign investors and support key sectors like the oil and gas industry. Although the incoming administration has yet to reveal a detailed economic-reform strategy, Sofyan Djalil, a member of Yudhoyono's economic team during the campaign, says corruption is the economy's biggest obstacle?and Yudhoyono plans to follow through on his promise to lead the fight against it personally. Sofyan says the new administration in its first 100 days may file charges against big-name...
...styles that woo fashion editors and retailers don't always win over customers (like the high-waisted trousers for adults touted by women's magazines last fall). But the latest preppy trend is catching on with teens. Marshal Cohen, chief apparel analyst at the NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y., market-research firm, estimates that about $80 of the average $300 that each student spends on back-to-school clothes will go to preppier, more conservative apparel. No, teens are not gathering to burn their low-rider jeans, but waistlines are inching back up, and Argyle sweaters and plaid skirts...
RETURN ENGAGEMENTS YOU LOVED THEM ONCE. CAN THEY WOO YOU AGAIN...
...Allawi appears to have recognized Sadr's influence, because he has strenuously attempted to woo the cleric to join the political process under the interim government. He reiterated his offer on Thursday. "This government calls upon all the armed groups to drop their weapons and rejoin society," Allawi said in a statement. "The political process is open to all, and everyone is invited to take part in it." But Sadr has rejected the terms, refusing to be recognized simply as one among hundreds of leaders, many of whom have no proven constituency. And his refusal to withdraw his forces from...
...same bureaucracies that mistakenly allowed the Sept. 11 hijackers into the country are now overreacting in regard to student visas, Nye said, limiting America’s ability both to woo young scholars with its ideals and to transplant those values abroad...