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...Japan eight years later. It's currently investing in facilities in the Czech Republic, Mexico and South Korea. "Our main competition used to be in the U.S., but it has disappeared there and now it's Japan," Leibinger-Kamm?ller says. Still, Trumpf uses its U.S. manufacturing operations as a springboard not just to the American market but also to Asia, where it exports part of its U.S. production. "Russia is going well, so are OPEC countries," she says. "But we also believe in the American economy." While the world tries to figure out just how critical...
...Lech Kaczynski returned as Justice Minister in the late 1990s, promising to get tough on crime. That image served as a springboard to launch the Law and Justice Party, which the brothers control. The party went on to win closely fought Parliamentary elections last year and, shortly afterward, presidential polls in which Lech was a come-from-behind winner. Jaroslaw did not become Prime Minister right away. Fearful of being mistaken for his brother by a would-be assassin, however, he requested official government security not ordinarily accorded a party leader. He was appointed Prime Minister earlier this year when...
...your co-workers find the rumor du jour hard to resist? Is your office laced with backbiting and backstabbing? April Callis of Springboard Consulting says she has the cure: Gossip Stoppers. The East Lansing, Mich., trainer has given this half-day workshop 30 times this year at infected workplaces like hospitals and universities and is now fielding requests from corporations...
...Greg Foltz, a neurosurgeon at the Seattle Neuroscience Institute at Swedish Medical Center who studies incurable brain tumors, the mouse atlas functions as a springboard for better understanding how these difficult tumors develop and grow. "We need clues," he says. "When a patient comes in and has a tumor removed, we take that tumor and complete a genomic study, but all we have is a database of genes. The best analogy I can come up with is that this genomic data is like having just the names in a phone book; it's only a list. We want to know...
...never count my goats before they hatch. As for our future plans, we're looking to build on what we're doing by adding more video, more investigative pieces, more satiric content. And we've just added a new section that covers everything but politics. Using as its springboard the themes in my new book, On Becoming Fearless, the section contains blog posts, news stories, and special features on relationships, work, parenting, health, sex, food, entertainment... in other words, life...