Governance planks in the past
Of course, political parties have used different governance 
planks in the past. For example, Christian Democrats in Europe, and Republicans in the US have focused more on terrorism and internal security, while Social Democrats in Europe and Democrats in the US have concentrated more on labour and health policy. But then, how does one justify the quite clear-cut jingoism in the past few years that has reverberated across even American vote banks? Rodrigues accepts, “Post 9/11, immigration, race and religion have fast taken over frontal positions in the election rhetoric. Parties with little or no focus on development have won in Holland, Denmark and Switzerland, solely based on xenophobic plank. Even in the US, we’re now discussing more about a woman (Hillary Clinton) challenging an Afro-American (Obama) and an Evangelical challenging a Mormon. But I can confirm, this is a passing phase.”
Unmistakably, there is no clear-cut correlation that can be drawn out globally between good governance and re-election, or election. While in some limited parts of the world, that equation still holds, in many other parts of the world, politicians continue to play the role of shrewd re-musketeers, simply repackaging non-governance oriented fustian balderdash to appeal to mass perception. Quite sonorously, in these cases, magniloquent pomposity – driven by fundamentalist/religious/extremist ideologies – works better towards re-election than transparent governance and development efforts.
The scenario, in such a case, is nothing short of chillingly frightening. How far lies the time when an extremist or terrorist outfit – backed by fanatical rants and like-minded mass support – comes to power in a nation that has the capacity to manufacture nuclear bombs? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the ‘democratically’ elected President of Iran in August 2005. Ahmadinejad continues, despite global opposition, to develop Iran’s nuclear program, professedly for only peaceful purposes. Ahmadinejad stands tall by his incorrigibly contumacious statement that the nation of Israel must be wiped off the map. How far lies the time when he puts his money where his mouth is?
planks in the past. For example, Christian Democrats in Europe, and Republicans in the US have focused more on terrorism and internal security, while Social Democrats in Europe and Democrats in the US have concentrated more on labour and health policy. But then, how does one justify the quite clear-cut jingoism in the past few years that has reverberated across even American vote banks? Rodrigues accepts, “Post 9/11, immigration, race and religion have fast taken over frontal positions in the election rhetoric. Parties with little or no focus on development have won in Holland, Denmark and Switzerland, solely based on xenophobic plank. Even in the US, we’re now discussing more about a woman (Hillary Clinton) challenging an Afro-American (Obama) and an Evangelical challenging a Mormon. But I can confirm, this is a passing phase.”Unmistakably, there is no clear-cut correlation that can be drawn out globally between good governance and re-election, or election. While in some limited parts of the world, that equation still holds, in many other parts of the world, politicians continue to play the role of shrewd re-musketeers, simply repackaging non-governance oriented fustian balderdash to appeal to mass perception. Quite sonorously, in these cases, magniloquent pomposity – driven by fundamentalist/religious/extremist ideologies – works better towards re-election than transparent governance and development efforts.
The scenario, in such a case, is nothing short of chillingly frightening. How far lies the time when an extremist or terrorist outfit – backed by fanatical rants and like-minded mass support – comes to power in a nation that has the capacity to manufacture nuclear bombs? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the ‘democratically’ elected President of Iran in August 2005. Ahmadinejad continues, despite global opposition, to develop Iran’s nuclear program, professedly for only peaceful purposes. Ahmadinejad stands tall by his incorrigibly contumacious statement that the nation of Israel must be wiped off the map. How far lies the time when he puts his money where his mouth is?
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generation consoles Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony’s much hyped PS3 is finally delivering the expected. Not only has the PS3 come out of its initial phase of sluggish sales, it has in fact defeated the most popular (and highest selling) gaming console of last year, Nintendo Wii, in the all important Japanese market. According to the figures released by magazine publisher Enterbrain, for the four weeks ending November 25, Sony was able to sell 183,217 PS3 consoles in the Japanese market, while Nintendo could only manage to sell 159,193 Wii consoles.
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in any basis, it is alarming for the investor; for instance change of AMC or fund manager. A change in fund manager is a cause of little worry in passively managed funds, but one should become cautious if his fund is actively managed. The fund’s performance needs to be closely observed after such a change. If it continues to be satisfactory it is fine, otherwise one could exit from the fund.
Google, has always believed in liliputian marketing efforts. However the results have been spectacular – the ‘most valuable’ brand for 2007 as per MilwardBrown valued at $66.43 billion (annual brand value growth of 77%) and the ‘most improving’ brand as per Interbrand for 2007. But just as Schumpeter would smile with Google as his disciple (following his ‘Theory of creative destruction’), Google has changed; and a company which primarily built itself as the most powerful brand through “word of mouth” publicity and “peer-recommendation” is now, not even sparing those scant advertising spaces on trains and buses in Chicago and San Francisco! The on-transit ads are meant to provide publicity to Google Maps (one of its most recent launches) to nab the spreading net of online and mobile-ad dollars. Google is currently busy extending its solutions portfolio, providing relief to its online-search advertising which currently garners 99% of its total revenues – a worthy deal for Google as analysts believe that Google’s main challenge is to maintain rapid growth of its top-line which has grown by a 5-year CAGR of 106.73% to touch $16.59 billion in FY2007!
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