Challenges In The News 06/23/08

Finance minister P Chidambaram considers inflation the country’s biggest challenge today and regards becoming an open market as the way forward.

On the same night recently elected Katy ISD trustees were sworn into office, district officials were hit with their biggest challenge of the year - the 2008-09 budget.

Teen standout Morgan Hoffmann of Arcola Country Club in Paramus has the best chance among locals to challenge for the title at the 53rd Metropolitan Golf Association Ike Stroke Play Championship.

(RTTNews) - Chadian authorities claimed that the rebel challenge would disintegrate and disappear quickly after the government-backed troops scored a major victory over the rebels in the battle of Am Zoer. The authorities claimed that the victory came after an eight-day offensive.

The Beacon to the Future library campaign is almost there, but needs a little boost to put it over the top. The fund is $307,000 short of meeting its $1 million matching challenge grant, with a week to go before the deadline.

A male witch who enslaved teenage girls has won the right to challenge an extended supervision order that requires him to live inside prison walls.

Scotland face the twin challenge of New Zealand and Ireland in Aberdeen next week.

Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin renewed his challenge of a drugs ban before a US judge on Monday, but the International Olympic Committee said the court had no jurisdiction in the matter. Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin began another challenge on Monday against a doping ban in the hope of competing in this week's American trials for the Beijing Games.

Suddenly, Pawn Shops Slip – ‘Payday Loans,’ A Big Business, Scare Off Investors. In a statement on EZCorp.’s first-quarter earnings, Chief Executive Joe Rotundra said the payday business “was challenged with bad debt,” which cost the company $6.6 million in the quarter, compared with $2.9 million in the same period of 2007.
“If things continue to be challenging, it’s probably time to sit down and evaluate what the appropriate relationship is”. – ILFC Chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy.

Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine today in federal court.