Challenges In The News 08/30/08

The way you stop a bank run is to restore confidence. For Uncle Sam, the challenge isn’t just to restore confidence among Americans, but also to make sure it doesn’t evaporate among our foreign creditors.

Part of the challenge was that city leaders were careful not to directly link the trash fee to hiring more police officers, which would have constituted a tax that required a citywide vote.

“As the largest election jurisdiction in the country, he’ll have more challenges like this in the future,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. “Since he’s been in one of the worst election controversies the state has ever seen, he’s certainly got his hands wet already and should know how to cope with those challenges when they do arise.”

“My refrigerator has half the foods in it that it used to have. The challenge is, can I go two weeks without going back to the grocery store? It takes practice.”

The most official culture of corruption is so entrenched that few journalists dare to challenge it.
The most challenging part of the Ad-Air business is finding locations. It’s not easy to find open fields close to big cities – and you always have to make sure to keep cows away.

“The board of directors feels that this is the right time for a change in the stewardship of the NOL Group, as it positions to grow in container shipping amidst the challenges of a cyclical industry sector, a slowing world economy and a tougher cost environment,” NOL Chairman Cheng Wai Keung said.

“Ariodante” is primarily a chain of single-emotion arias, made up of multiple repeats and super-challenging coloratura ornamentations.
“It’s been challenging,” says Nancy Kalinowski, the FAA’s vice president of system operations services. “There are a lot of things in place that we think are making a difference” but delays have increased at key airports, particularly in New York and Chicago.

The center’s “Adventure Gorge Tour” invites adventure-minded travelers on a zip-line challenge course over 5,000 feet in length from top to bottom.

All three companies will benefit from new union contracts that relieve them of their crushing pension and health-care obligations to retirees. But these cost savings won’t start flowing until 2010. The Detroit companies’ challenge will be to survive until then, while also revamping their product lineups.