After all, a 22-year-old single mother of two in Petare, Chapeu Mangueira, Chimalhuacan or Ciudad Bolivar, doesn't care about macroeconomic policies or free market economies, but about a leader who will make it possible to feed her children tomorrow.

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At least until this summer, Amazon became the de facto leader of the Android tablet market while electronics heavyweights like Samsung couldn't break much ground.

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Meanwhile, some worry that Lilly's current sales leader, Zyprexa, can't hold off new competition in the schizophrenia market.

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But Toyota, the leader in hybrid-electric vehicles, still isn't convinced there's a large market for electric vehicles.

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It's important to find a good local leader and then trust him to give you insights to that market, even if you don't initially agree with those views.

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But market reforms haven't been kind to the historic shipyards of Gdansk, where the Solidarity Union movement began with union leader and future Polish president, Lech Walesa.

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