Challenges In The News 09/14/08

Asustek still faces some big challenges before it can join the tech indsutry’s elite.

Yahoo also seeks some guarantee of the deal’s value. As Microsoft’s share price dropped amid concern over the challenges of integrating so large a target, so did the value of its half-stock, half-cash offer – by several billion dollars.

On June 2, Washingon lost its final appeal before WTO in a case brought by Brazil challenging the subsidies.

Men’s team carries great expectations. U.S. squad has potential to be best of all time. The 2008 team, if they want to be the best team, they’re going to have to earn it. “It’s going to be a huge challenge,” said national team coach Mark Schubert.

Eni Oil-Deal Prices Stir Concern. A big challenge, he says is achieving less-bad outcomes in today’s environment of high oil prices. Sticking to old contracts in the face of more-powerful state oil companies “is maybe not the right strategy because, at the end of the day, governments own the oil.”

Stocks end quarter just above ‘Bear’ but Challenges remain for the rest of the year.

Casting for deeper meaning. Author finds solace in rivers. Mary Alice Monroe is standing thigh-deep in the Dry River, which is anything but. The previous night’s rain has swollen the stream that runs through Riven Rock Park outside of town here. It’s not the best conditions for fly-fishing. her guide has already told her that fishing today is going to be a “real challenge”. In fact, Monroe just caught her line in a tree.

The Pentagon and the State Department quickly disputed the GAO’s conclusion, but the report nevertheless points to the challenging problems for which the GAO investigators, at least, did not see a cohesive, convincing response.

“I have found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged – at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears about who I am and what I stand for,” he said before a few hundred people at the Truman Memorial Building.

A Feat of Engineering / A Global Partnership – It’s important to know who can handle the challenge.

In an Absolut World: We question everything. We challenge assumptions and defy conventions. Because that’s the first step in making things better.