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...McDonald's says real estate speculation is one major factor: "In many cases, it's the 'loot-and-scoot' model. You see an opportunity, you build a mall, you sell out and leave." Mall builders like Unitech and DLF acknowledge that there has been speculative mall building, but blame it on smaller competitors that lack their long-term vision. Instead of putting a check on the mall-building glut, says Bakshi, India's state and local governments are all too happy to encourage it. "Governments sell land because they get great prices for it," he says. However, an administrator with...
...which President Bush has attempted to reap political benefits from both sides of the issue. While publicly calling for an extension to the popular ban, with a wink and a nod to the gun lobby Bush has refused to lift a finger to persuade Congress. He prefers to blame Congress for their inaction, but the true blame lies with his own insincerity...
...Social Democrats, with potentially disastrous consequences for the ruling party in the 2006 general election. When Bisky took over the PDS last year, the party was in disarray. In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the PDS dropped from 36 seats in the Bundestag to just two. Bisky was partly to blame; he had served as PDS chairman from 1993 to 2000. But now Bisky has made the party a leading voice against Schröder's controversial reforms, especially a new law that will cut long-term unemployment benefits next year. "We have made clear that we want to change things...
...course, it's not really fair to blame Hong Kong's politicians for arrested development: Legco was designed for political midgets by Hong Kong's British colonial rulers. Half the chamber's seats will not be elected by neighborhoods but rather by industry groups, which has produced such fascinating challenges as the oral surgeons vs. the doctors for the medical seat. Nor, perhaps, should Hong Kong's people be criticized for concentrating their attention, this year, on the existential questions of democracy and their relationship with Beijing. But for Hong Kong to take genuine steps towards true democracy will require...
...service is bad, you'll have only yourself to blame. Self-service kiosks--those ATM-like machines that let you check in at the airport or check out at the grocery store all on your own--are sweeping into more retailers and service spots. Big-box stores like Home Depot and Wal-Mart are rolling them out, as are movie theaters, convenience stores, sports venues and even courthouses...