Challenges In The News 07/07/08

“If that turns out to be our biggest challenge, we should be in good shape.”

A more philosophical view comes from Adam Galinsky, a professor Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management who studies ethics and decision making. Founders’ challenges in letting go have been studied for decades, without ever being solved in a last way.

One of the challenges for the next president will be that the federal government already is contractually obligated to accept fuel from nuclear utilities and to remove waste from states.

One reason: Some gay couples appear to be proceeding cautiously because they are worried about challenges to the high-court ruling, says David Paisley, a consultant to the hotel and travel industry on gay and lesbian market research.

Sen. Clinton’s refusal to drop out immediately came after her surrise win in South Dakota’s primary Tuesday. That victory didn’t change the dynamics of the race. But it underscored some of Sen. Obama’s weaknesses, which were on display over the final month of the long campaign, when he suffered s string of landslide losses to his challenger.

The Republican ticket has a different set of challenges this time around.

She ran for too long as the cautious and inevitable nominee, rather than as an aggressive, risk-taking challenger.

Court rejects challenges to its gay-marriage ruling

A prominent environmental group and several railroad advocacy organizations, however, contend that Union Pacific’s refusal will prove a formidable challenge to the project at a key moment. California voters will be asked in November to approve nearly $10 billion in bonds to help finance construction.

San Francisco – Gay couples in California rushed to set wedding dates Wednesday after the California Supreme Court’s unusually quick rejection of challenges to its historic decision permitting same-sex couples to wed.

A health challenge likely to grow more daunting. It’s hard enough for the disabled to find dental care. State cuts and other trends won’t help. The challenge had been finding a dentist willing to treat his namesake, who is 13 but looks like half that age.