Challenges In The News 04/07/08

Treasurer Peter Costello rules out a leadership challenge before the coming election.

THEYDON Bois Golf Club ladies captain Averil Murphy and past captain and Epping Rotarian Jean Kibblewhite raised over £2,000 for Arthritis Research when they completed their challenge of playing 100 holes in a day.

Countrywide in a scamble – Leading mortgage lender quickly reacts to housing bust. “In an absolute level sense, this is the biggest challenge” Countrywide has ever faced.” The company expected rising delinquencies and a weak housing market, but was “well positioned and extremely optimistic about our prospects to continue generating growth and superior returns over future cycles.” Each cycle brings with it a unique set of challenges, and this time is no different. In fact, this current cycle is certainly the most severe in the contemporary history of our industry. “There is no question that our industry, our company and many of our borrowers continue to face significant challenges.”

$30 million prize offered in challenge. Google to sponsor space race to moon. The international competition challenges entrants to land a robotic vehicle on the moon, have it travel at least 500 meters and beam video images and other data back to Earth. The first company to win the private-sector space race by 2012 would take home $20 million.

Alcatel’s many warnings – Raising additional capital could present challenge; also-ran in 3G Cellphones.

An additional challenge? Her target market, the close-knit Queen Street West artistic community, was well-known as a skeptical crowd.

In a hot real estate market on the other side of the country – the challenge is capturing potential buyers poised to make an important life-altering decision: where to live once they retire. We apply a formula to come up with the different buyer segments.

The GAO study said Baghdad hasn’t met 11 of 18 benchmarks, an assessment that challenges Bush’s war findings ahead of a pivotal report to Congress next week.

Paying attention to sustainability is a multi-faceted challenge; it means addressing consumer needs, applying innovative technologies, examining business processes and perhaps even lobbying. Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres says sustainability reporting is the driver for improving corporate performance on sustainability challenges such as workplace conditions or global climate change. “These winning reports are the best of the best in articulating sustainability strategies, setting clear targets and identifying actions and areas that need improvement.”

NASHUA - Former governor Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire said yesterday that she will challenge Senator John E. Sununu in 2008, setting up a rematch of their closely fought 2002 contest and presenting Sununu, a Republican, with a serious test of his support for the Iraq war.

ITHACA — A State Supreme Court Judge denied a jurisdictional challenge from the Ithaca City School District against the New York Division of Human Rights this week, but not before saying that district's argument that the state's human rights law does not protect public school students is persuasive.