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...face of growing opposition, India's retail heavyweights are digging in. "We stand committed to what we have set out to achieve," Mukesh Ambani, chairperson and managing director of Reliance Industries, told shareholders at the annual general meeting last week, adding that resistance to big retail would abate once benefits begin to show. Another conglomerate, the $4.5 billion Mahindra Group, announced plans to enter the organized retail fray on the same day as the Mumbai protest. India's government, in a possible attempt to placate its leftist partners, has commissioned a study on the impact of organized retail on small...
...phenomenon known as de-identification may also work against a middle-born. Siblings who hope to stand out in a family often do so by observing what the elder child does and then doing the opposite. If the firstborn gets good grades and takes a job after school, the second-born may go the slacker route. The third-born may then de-de-identify, opting for industriousness, even if in the more unconventional ways of the last-born. A Chinese study in the 1990s showed just this kind of zigzag pattern, with the first child generally scoring high...
...recent undergraduate alumni, Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06 of Lewis Albert and Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 of Porter Grey, stand as CEOs of design labels that have risen in considerable prominence in the fashion world—a prominence so extreme that they refused comment to their alma mater’s newspaper. (Because of PR constraints and commitments to other magazines, neither would grant interviews for this article...
...have made fiscal responsibility a top priority, and we will sustain any presidential veto over wasteful and excessive spending,"Boehner said. "House Democrats have intentionally designed a strategy to ensure more pork and more wasteful spending, not less. That's not what the American people want, and Republicans will stand on principle to ensure families aren't stuck with the tab for the Democrats' spending spree...
...walkouts - and convince public opinion to back their efforts. That kind of strong opposition, some pundits predict, could cause Sarkozy to effectively pull the "special regime" revision off the table in order to avoid the same kind of long, bitter, and economically disastrous conflict of 1995. But such a stand-down would also badly damage Sarkozy's tireless self-promotion as a fearless reformer bent on pushing through long-delayed change that predecessors have backed away from - a reputation he'll need the public to believe in and follow if he wants to continue his policy of "rupture...