Challenges In The News 08/26/08

One challenge these companies face is coming up with products that parents and friends will purchase year after year.

“It’s worth the investment. It’ll help us in our ultimate challenge – survival.”

To meet these challenges, the film’s backers are marketing two different movies. Regionally, they are playing up the pan-Asian cast and tying marketing to historical events that are widely known here. Elsewhere, they plan to pare the two parts down to one action-oriented film and play up its director, John Woo, who is well-known in the West for his cinematic shoot-em-ps.

The U.N. and Comrade Bob. Mr. Mugabe knows that the only action with any chance of challenging his rule Harare would be a U.S.-led intervention, and Mr. Obama has said he really dislikes that sort of thing.

One important potential pathway to reducing aviation’s carbon footprint is the development of an effective emissions trading scheme. Reducing delays is particularly challenging at busy hubs, where aircraft frequently have to circle waiting for a landing slot, wasting fuel and added to the environmental burden.

Health-Care Tax Credit Proposed for Small Business. Sen. Barack Obama unveiled a $6 billion-a-year plan to provide tax credits for small businesses offering health insurance to employees, an idea proposed by onetime rival Sen. Hillary Clinton that is targeted at one of the most persistent challenges in achieving universal coverage.

Sen. Obama’s coattails could be helpful to challenger Jim Himes in the Democratic-leaning Greenwich, Conn., district represented by Christopher Shays, a Republican.

Federer’s most challenging obstacle might be his head.

How does the alliance surmount these challenges?

Membership Drive: My challenge to all clubs is to bring in new members. Challenge your club as President and say, “I would like to challenge each of you to get involved and make a difference.”

We’re making solid progress. Opposing view: Enemy in Afghanistand is growing weaker, but big challenges remain.