Challenges In The News Today

Google Cites Flaws in Its Video Store
- (LA Times Business – January 26, 2006)

... (Google) seeks to extend its dominance of Web searching into the market for videos and it highlights the challenges Google faces as it expands.” The site that opened this month also lets individuals submit video clips to Google and will let them charge for the content.

At Zurich, we take the time to understand the challenges our customers face.
- (Zurich Ad copy)

Hooray for Hollywood
- (Fast Company article by Mark N. Vamos – December 2005)

And yes, they even include industry insiders such as Bob Iger, the newly minted CEO of Walt Disney, who’s daring to challenge some fundamental assumptions about how films are released (and winning himself a lot of enemies in the process).

Challenge to Hospitality: The ID Check in the Lobby
- (New York Times headline – January 24, 2006)

Challenge lies in keeping the competition good fun
- (LA Times Television & Radio headline – January 18, 2006)

Different Roster and Uniform, Similar Challenges
- (LA Times PROFILE headline / Cormac J. Carney – January 17, 2006)

Excitement served nightly
- (Food Network ad)

For thrills and spills, watch Food Network Challenge and Iron Chef America.

Challenge for President is to Show His Control of National Agenda
- (New York Times frontpage – January 26, 2006)

Ex-Merrill Broker Challenges Firing
- (Wall Street Journal Moving The Market – January 26, 2006)

Regardless, the ex-brokers legal challenge is another twist in an embarrassing saga for Wall Street.

Free Market Rattles Chinese
- (Wall Street Journal International – January 26, 2006)

Such concerns underscore the challenges facing China’s leadership. Many people now want the security of a state job, nearly one million people, a record high, vied for 10,282 central government posts last year. Now, people in China are beginning to unerstand there are more profound, less visible dangers.

Chinese leaders face the challenge of sustaining the momentum by encouraging greater domestic spending. The economy appears to be firing on all cylinders, with growth more evenly balanced among investment, domestic consumption and trade. Still, economists say the trickiest challenge might loom ahead.

Challenger’s lessons prove elusive
- (USA Today The Forum – January 26, 2006)

73 seconds after liftoff, The Challenger shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986. I was attending an Auctioneer’s Conference in Orlando and went outside to see the smoke in the sky, after first seeing it on television. Twenty years later, my memory of that day remains vivid.