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...spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure, while America can hardly repair its bridges. The U.S. has to invest and spend to build a future, to help re-create a workforce, and for now debt is a means to that end - provided Washington shows it can effectively channel that money. (See the best business deals...
...content that's broadcast over the airwaves to non-cable subscribers for free. They say they already give companies like Disney, which owns ABC, plenty of money - Disney gets about $200 million a year from Cablevision alone, for the right to carry cable networks like ESPN and the Disney Channel. (ESPN is reputed to get $4 per month per subscriber, the highest of any cable channel.) And any increases in costs, they note, will likely be passed on to consumers...
...Those same sales staff also offer a key channel for market research, assessing how Master Kong is received in the homeliest neighborhoods. And that all helps further growth. Wei acknowledges that Master Kong has to stay humble. "If you tell people Kang Shifu is a company that makes good coffee, they will never believe it," he says (coffee being too foreign and expensive-sounding). "So our brand extension is limited by our customers." But those customers have been great for Tingyi, especially amid the uncertain economy of 2009, when it was a distinct advantage to be dealing in low-cost...
...showing stuff that's racier than the Disney Channel, but not by much...
During the 2008 campaign, Obama's team was able to exploit new technologies as no political campaign had before. It created its own media empire - an e-mail list with 13 million subscribers, a YouTube channel with millions of views and a massive social-networking operation. "What the voters heard, we determined," boasted Anita Dunn, a top campaign aide, "as opposed to some editor in a TV station." (See the top 10 campaign t-shirts...