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...Opera thrived thanks to word of mouth on the Web. After all, on the Internet no one knows you're a tiny firm based in faraway Norway. Opera gained a reputation for being smaller and faster than products offered by Microsoft and Netscape. Opera suffered a setback earlier this year when Finnish phone giant Nokia signed an agreement with Netscape. "We work hard to get these deals but recognize that sometimes we'll get them and sometimes we won't," Von Tetzchner says.?For many telecommunications firms, size matters: potential partners wonder whether a company as small as Opera...
...Communist Party scored a surprise comeback in parliamentary elections. Led by Vladimir Voronin, the Communists won nearly 51% of the vote and will command a majority in the legislature. Voronin lost no time in signaling that he would strengthen ties with Russia. The Communist triumph was a bitter setback for Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis, whose centrist coalition won only 13.5% of the vote...
...Summers experienced perhaps the largest setback of his career when a memo of his was leaked to the press. In the memo, Summers suggested "encouraging the migration of the dirty [high polluting] industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries...
...most dramatic setback suffered by Kosovo's Albanian nationalists was probably the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence for Kosovo dimmed even further. That, and President George W. Bush's campaign promise to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, may have prompted Albanian nationalists across the region to step up their campaign for a Greater Albania, by launching new insurgencies in Serbia's Presevo Valley (which falls in a demilitarized buffer zone adjacent to Kosovo) and in northern...
...slight setback, but we knew we'd be OK," Matt Picarsic said. "We thought we could bounce back by scoring some points in the consolation rounds. And that's exactly what ended up happening...