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Headquartered in renovated offices on the rundown waterfront of Baltimore, Md., Under Armour is privately held by Plank, 30, his mother, five brothers and two partners. Under Armour manufactures about half its gear in Honduras, Mexico and other countries in the Caribbean basin. Wages are higher in Baltimore, but the company makes about half its goods there and in other U.S. cities to ensure rapid turnaround for key products. Under Armour ships 175,000 items a week, mostly shirts selling for $25 to $50 but also shorts, socks and headgear. All are made of various blends of polyester and Lycra...
Moving at full speed toward one another, the racing shells collided in the basin of the Charles River between...
...happened in the basin...[where] the traffic pattern was not clearly defined or well-patrolled,” O’Leary said. “I don’t think the boats’ coaches are going to be blaming one another...
...Judge Loble is guarding that trust. The 250-mile-long Musselshell River, which bisects much of the center of the state west to east, has run dry. Stunted brown patches of barley and drooping cornstalks along its winding path testify to the summer's record heat wave. Deadman's Basin, one of the river's three storage reservoirs, yielded a piddling 10,000 acre-ft. of water this year, compared with an average of 48,940 acre-ft. Due in large part to the lack of water, the state's winter wheat harvest was the smallest since the Dust...
...peasant communes to "plant grain everywhere." In the 1950s, work brigades flew banners reading "Turn Waste Land to Great Land" as they drained the lakes along the Yangtze and its tributaries and seeded them with crops. Families settled on flood plains. The enormous Dongting Lake, once a valuable catch basin during years the Yangtze swelled with the melting snows of the Himalayas, is now half the size it was when Chairman Mao came to power...