Word: channelling
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...doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were in business; today there are only 13. The merger is the category's last-gasp effort to save itself. "It represents the best chance to stop the decline of the department-store channel," says Liz Claiborne CEO Paul Charron...
...foam from Australia, China and Brazil, need big orders filled fast, leaving an opening for new competitors. Todd Proctor, who has patented a surfboardmaking process using Kevlar and epoxy resin, says demand is up sevenfold, and he has attracted venture capital to purchase Clark's distribution channel. SurfTech, the largest maker of epoxy boards, reports that business has doubled. Insiders say the search for new materials could mark a technological turning point, similar to an earlier move away from balsa wood toward polyurethane. "It will be the biggest shift in 40 years," says board-shaping icon Eric Arakawa...
...Reese Witherspoon: Acting surprised when she wins best actress for Walk the Line will surely require Witherspoon to channel more of that June Carter-style class...
...think that undergraduates are sick of the strike, and a lot of them don’t know how to channel that energy,” said Sarah Dell’Orto, who is a member of the pro-striker group Graduate-Undergraduate Solidarity. “A lot of times, [undergraduates] take that anger or frustration out on GSOC, instead of trying to be supportive,” Dell’Orto said...
...fishing vessels owned by a Taiwan crime syndicate. Indeed, the report claims that a chief attraction of running such a business in North Korea is that the "regime's willingness to allow dedicated, deep-sea smuggling vessels to use its ports provides the gangs with a secure delivery channel...