Word: prospered
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...costs enough to defeat the makers of PDP sets, which are significantly cheaper. "There is a real price battle going on," says Masuda, as Sharp jockeys for position. Sharp executives downplay such claims, saying the market is big enough for sellers of both types of large-screen TVs to prosper. "That is the benefit of being relatively small and targeted," says Toshishige Hamano, Sharp's international business director. "We are not aiming at all users...
Still, the Chongqing experiment appears to be working. Prosperity is evident both in the factories and the city at large. Indeed, some ordinary residents have become quite wealthy. Kang Gomin, 36, operates two outdoor noodle shops at a market north of the Jialing River, where 1,300 farmers sell their produce. Says Kang: "I got the idea to open a restaurant when I realized that the people who bring their goods here cannot go back to their houses to eat their meals." When his first shop began to prosper, he opened a second...
...examine their economic strategies. Even the threat of Western import barriers could be helpful if it forces countries to find different trading partners and new ways to grow. Concluded Hong Kong's Chen: "Protectionism can be an early signal to adjust. And only countries that learn to adjust can prosper." --By Charles P. Alexander Forecasts by TIME's Pacific Board of Economists...
...universities will be dependent on Chinese students. Large amounts of prime real estate in the major cities will be owned by Chinese investors. I see very large parts of the farming and mining sectors in Chinese hands. How else can a country of 20 million people survive and prosper in this part of the world, with a rising China...
...grew up in a comfortable merchant family that was religious but not rigidly so. After his son graduated from Jordan's Mu'tah University, Ra'ed's father set him up with a law office in Amman, but in three years the practice failed to prosper. In 1999, his family says, Ra'ed spent six months as an unpaid intern at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Amman, working with a legal-protection unit to help Iraqis fleeing Saddam Hussein's regime. When his father questioned the lack of salary, Ra'ed replied that...