Challenges In The News 07/08/08

The National Farmers Union called the initiatives a “first step” toward addressing the concerns of producers. The group has said increased volatility may challenge farmer’s ability to hedge risks.

The format also faces sales challenges that DVDs did not when they took over from VHS in the late 1990s. It doesn’t save any space compared with DVD, and there’s no need to replace a DVD collectino even once you buy a Blu-ray player because it will play you old discs.

Parents are fighting mad on school fund cuts. “It’s one of the things I’m putting a stop to,” said the recently appointed administrator. Sure, he said, it’s important to make parents aware of the challenges and recruit them into the cause, but “a slick, Fifth Avenue brochure” might not be the best way to reach the many parents who are unemployed, on welfare, or uninterested in the nuances of categorical funding.

“I enjoy the challenge,” she said. “I like doing what nobody else can do.”

Democratic strategists argued that Obama benefited from the bitter primary battle with Clinton in at least two ways: The contest forced him to contend with tough challenges from a tenacious opponent, and it aired controversial issues well before the November election.

McCain takes on Obama: “He’s an impressive man who makes a great first impression. But he hasn’t been willing to make the tough calls to challenge his party, to risk criticism from his supporters, to bring real change to Washington and I have.”

He started as an underdog, but that worked to Obama’s advantage. His strategists felt free to challenge convention thinking like the notion of targeting young people.

Even while celebrating his improbable achievement Tuesday night, Obama faced stinging reminders of challenges he has yet to overcome.
SolarCity workmen install a system this week in Fremont. It and seven other firms responded to San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's challenge to cut upfront costs for customers.

Vodafone Group Plc will seek next week to challenge a retrospective change to Indian tax law as it fights a $2 billion tax bill on its purchase of a controlling stake in an Indian mobile operator last year.

ANNISTON - Casandra Richey had been in trouble and was headed for more when she decided to attend the National Guard Youth Challenge Academy. "If I had not joined this academy, I would have ended up in jail again or on drugs again," said the 16-year-old from Florence.