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...market share. Lisa Smith, general manager for appliances at U.S. retailer Best Buy Co., began carrying LG refrigerators and washers and dryers last July, and their jazzy designs, such as yellow and blue lights on dryer control panels that look like car dashboards, have made them a hit with younger shoppers. "[LG has] done a fantastic job of raising the bar in the U.S. market," Smith says. "The products are popular, and they continue to gain momentum...
...production costs to compete. (Although the city has a world-famous film industry, Japan and South Korea have long been Asia's animation centers; mainland China and India are also on the rise in this field, capitalizing on their cheap labor pools.) Imagi is also a tale of the younger generation reinventing the family business, a venerable Hong Kong tradition...
...ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place [as next in line for the prime ministership]. 'Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed,' said a Western diplomat...
...marks a rite of passage, with the longer-term fate and fortune of the fabled Italian family, worth some $2 billion, now resting on the shoulders of three members of the next generation. Elkann and his younger brother Lapo are grandsons of Giovanni Agnelli, and Andrea is Umberto's son by his second marriage. The family's line of succession was disrupted when Umberto's eldest son, long seen as the heir apparent, died of cancer in 1997--and Giovanni's son committed suicide in 2000. The three cousins have limited business experience...
...University of Virginia. "Goldwater tried and failed to do that. Reagan succeeded." More than that, Reagan took who was next in line of Republican centrism, George H.W. Bush, vanquished him in the 1980 primaries and then cordially digested him into his own Administration. It was a lesson George the Younger never forgot...