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...This year, Li is back on the West Coast - or rather, his eponymous sportswear company is - setting up its first U.S. retail store in Portland, Ore., not far from the headquarters of archrival Nike. This isn't the first time China's biggest shoe company will go toe to toe with Nike, which has aggressively marketed itself in China. But for once, it won't have home-court advantage. Eyes are on the Portland area, also home to Adidas America and Columbia Sportswear, to see if Li Ning can once again surprise the world by taking on American powerhouses...
...Convincing every major economy of the virtues of a bank tax, though, remains the biggest challenge. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, for instance, rejected a bank tax out of hand earlier this month, favoring instead a wider implementation of some of the tough rules that left his country's banks relatively unscathed by the crisis. But the publication next month of the International Monetary Fund's recommendations on bank taxes - a report commissioned by the G-20 countries last year - might help coax reluctant nations into considering the measure. "Some countries feel they did their homework," says Arturo De Frias...
...biggest thing is having the right zone mentality, making sure that you’re patient,” Tillman said. “When teams run zone, they want you to be impatient and then take a rushed shot instead of really looking for the best shot, not the first shot...
...into [the game] like we do every other Ivy game, like it’s the biggest game of our season,” VanderMeulen added...
...pass it until the Elysée whipped them into line in November 2009. A month later - just days before it was set to take effect - France's Constitutional Council struck the law down because it unlawfully applied measures to consumers while exempting French companies, by far the biggest carbon emitters. Sarkozy pledged to widen the measure to include businesses. But that only mobilized France's employers' lobby. With the voters finally having had their say, Sarkozy has decided to shelve the measure he once said would "save the human race." (See pictures of Paris expanding...