Challenges In The News 07/05/08

McCain Faces Challenge Over Campaign Links to Lobbyists

How Prime Minister Maliki Pacified Iraq – Three main challenges to security and political progress remained. The Maliki government had shown its willingness to target Sunni insurgents, but many feared it would not challenge Iran’s proxies and the Sadrist militias within which they functioned. But success is in sight. Compared with the seemingly insurmountable obstacles already overcome, the remaining challenges in Iraq are eminently solvable – if we continue to pursue a determined strategy that builds on success rather than throwing our accomplishments away.

Are Google, Yahoo the next dinosaurs? Many on the hunt for a way to cash in on wireless search. One of the biggest challenges: dealing with the matchbox-size screens of cellphones and other devices, which aren’t hospitable to the ads that are the lifeblood of traditional search engines. Billions in potential ad revenue are at stake as social networks, location-based services and wireless search deliver instant answers to wireles users on the go.

Another challenge: The market’s turbulence has all but caused the disappearance of certain businesses that were a gold mine for Wall Street – from packaging mortgages to make big corporate loans. The loss of those cash cows means it will take even longer to recover from the current mess.

Hell’s Kitchen. The chefs are challenged to teach cooking-impaired housewives.
There were some challenges in the beginning, mostly when it cam to matters involving raising the children.

WiMAX Patent Pool Is Planned – Firms aim to spur use by limited royalty payments. The group faces several challenges, including a competing standard. Also, among the patent holders that haven’t signed on are Motorola and Qualcomm. But the WiMAX alliance, which was reported by Comperworld Friday, faces several challenges. One is a competing standard know as LTE, for long-range evolution – that shares a common technical foundation with WiMAX and is expected to be preferred by many cellular carriers.

In a state (Oregon) with more than 15 percent of its population uninsured and rising health care costs outpacing inflation, residents have plenty of health challenges to discuss.

Complex challenges – But the complexity of becoming overweight poses remarkably steep challenges to drug development.

Keep taxes low. Some say we can’t afford more tax cuts. It is important to remember that our deficit challenge is a long-term problem driven by future increases in Social Security and health care spending. Washington should cut its spending so American families don’t have to cut theirs.

U.S. and Argentia tie, 0-0: “Tonight it was about standing up for ourselves, believing we could get a result. We stood up to the challenge. It wasn’t always pretty at times.”