Word: bras
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...meeting place of East and West. Celal Hasnalcaci, a local manufacturer of denim jeans for export, prays five times a day but adorns his office walls with photographs of young women striking provocative poses in low-cut jeans. Giant billboards on the main street downtown flog everything from bras to i-Pods. The region is at once a heartland of Muslim conservatism and Europe's biggest supplier of lingerie. "Business is business," says Hasnalcac with a shrug...
...double up on sports bras before she can go jogging...
...better off if stars start vying for attention through good deeds instead of the normal route of scandal.Through the “Bono effect,” as strange as it might seem at face value, Madonna might someday no longer have to rely on provocative stunts involving pointed bras and crucifixes in order to stay visible. This would help Madonna, the children of Malawi, and us. We wouldn’t have to deal with Madonna’s sensationalism, the children of Malawi would get $3 million worth of aid (and a movie about it), and Madonna could...
...DIED. Alfredo Stroessner, 93, canny and cruel dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 who brought relative stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The macho general, who flashed his name in neon across the country and famously sheltered Nazis including Josef Mengele, solidified and maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s...
...shortages and stricter environmental regulations, and Shenzhen has become one of the most expensive places in the country for factory operations. Adaptation is the order of the day. For example, Hong Kong-based Top Form, the world's largest bra maker, has transferred much of the manufacturing of basic bras from its Shenzhen factory to other facilities such as its plant at Long Nan in Jiangxi province, where labor costs (including benefits) are 60% lower. Top Form's Shenzhen factory is now focused on manufacturing high-fashion bras featuring delicate fabrics and complicated designs, which require more talent to produce...