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...potential national recession, and Mitt comes in and starts talking about turning things around. National issues coincided with state issues. "The campaign has seized upon this equivalence between Michigan's problems and the nation's to explain away his losses in New Hampshire and Iowa. "Michigan is a microcosm of America," says Madden, implying that the earlier, and more influential, states shop for boutique candidates. Apparently South Carolina falls into that category as well, since Romney will likely bypass Saturday's primary in order to dominate the little-noticed Nevada Republican caucus...
...We’ve often heard the conventional wisdom that mayors lack the experience necessary to be president. However, in terms of domestic policy issues, New York City is, as much as a city can be, a microcosm of the United States. Problems such as inefficient spending, crime, and a flawed education system are challenges faced by governments at all levels, and Rudy has time and again proven he can tackle these sorts of problems. And, in addressing problems he wasn’t exposed to as mayor, Rudy would apply his model of persistence and innovation to craft...
...just past noon on a weekday, but Central Market is milling like a beehive. It sells everything from hairpins to automobiles, catering to a spectrum of consumers as varied as the vehicles that bring them here. It is a microcosm of the diversity of "Consumer India" that marketing guru Rama Bijapurkar talks about in her new book We Are Like That Only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India. "We are like that only..." is a particularly Indian English expression used to explain or excuse the country's idiosyncratic traits...
...political crisis in Lebanon is seen by many as a microcosm of the regional power struggle between the United States, Iran and Syria. Some analysts here believe that the Lebanese impasse could be broken if Syria is given a prominent role at the forthcoming peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Syria, which backs the Lebanese opposition, says it will only participate in the conference if the Golan Heights, Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, is included on the agenda. If Syria's demand is met, Damascus could use its influence over the opposition to accept...
...generations ago, in Guangdong province in southern China. His first name and French accent reflect the European culture of his adopted home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. His children are at college in Perth, Boston and, soon, London. And his $200 million-per-year business is a microcosm of globalization in action. It buys raw cotton from Asia and Africa, ships it to Mauritius, spins it into yarn and makes it into clothes designed in-house. Those are shipped to retailers in Europe, Asia and the U.S. "We have to import all our raw materials...