Marketing and advertising, Herbert says, are reaching out to the "forward edge of middle America"--whatever that is.
The doom seekers are right this time, we have lost our competitive edge, but the business leadership has been at the leading edge of why America is on the wrong path!
One example is the Merrill Edge service from Bank of America Corp.
For all the talk of cheap gas giving America a competitive edge, manufacturing only employs 9% of the non-farm workforce in the U.S., and the chemicals sector a mere 0.6%.
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From the mom-and-pop storefront shops to the high-tech startups that keep America on the cutting edge, small businesses create two out of every three new private-sector jobs in America.
An exception to the general rule that banks are expensive: a Bank of America account called Merrill Edge, which beats even the discounters on trading commissions.
Merrill Edge will automatically have half-a-million customers: the clients of Bank of America's existing online brokerage, who will be transferred to Merrill Edge in July and August.
The idea is to create jobs now, and to make sure America stays on the cutting edge of manufacturing for years to come.
"Given the ominous developments in the Soviet Union and the lessons to be learned in the Persian Gulf concerning the importance of maintaining America's technological edge in military systems, the United States should call a 'time-out' to permit a reevaluation of U.S. and allied technology security needs, " said Frank J.
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While Greece is in the financial toilet bowl and spinning toward doom, America is only teetering on the edge of the seat.
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No one has proposed adding many times that amount to the Pentagon's budget to help preserve or restore America's qualitative edge in the wake of more recent -- and Clinton-approved -- technology transfers.
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Before this tragedy words like "danger", "extreme", "on the edge" seemed part of the appeal of this edition of the America's Cup.
With the leading edge of the 78 million baby boomers now in their early 60s, America's aging population underpins the bullish future of health care as a sector.
For three years, Obama has led America where he wanted, and the country has reached the edge of a mountain of debt and unemployment.
And America far outpaces the rest of the world in adoption of cutting-edge wireless broadband technology.
One book is The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America.
Lord Sainsbury and a group of biotech experts recently set off for America to find out how Britain can keep its edge.
Mr Schramm, who, as head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City pays for a lot of research into the subject, argues that America needs to do more to maintain its entrepreneurial edge.
Command of the air, as early airpower proponents once called it, is the single most important military edge that America has.
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Watch America lose its scientific and competitive edge to other nations that make a comprehensive knowledge base a rule of the society.
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