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...Arnault: Because China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential - with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. [For LVMH] this is a pioneering country, where we have grown relatively fast with luxury goods and cosmetics, and we are opening new territories for wine and spirits...
...rising sales to soar. Well, relatively speaking. This is, after all, a company whose ambition is to sell a mere 1,000 cars a year. That's a goal now in reach, thanks to upcoming expansions of the Rolls product line, increasing numbers of extremely rich potential buyers, and fast-growing Asian markets...
...term is "leapfrog" - or as Davis said later, "super leapfrog." Desperate to keep juice flowing to their rapidly growing economies - in India especially, blackouts remain a fact of life - the big developing nations are adding electrical capacity fast, cheap and dirty. China alone is building a coal plant a week for the next five years, locking in vast levels of carbon dioxide emissions. It would be a big step just to get these economies to the same efficiency and relative cleanliness of developed-world energy systems. Coal plants in Japan, for instance, operate with an efficiency of 40% or better...
...Baseball fans, however, could gain one from the nippy weather. Too much of baseball is needlessly slow and drawn out these days, with both pitchers and hitters taking their time between pitches, but cold temperatures could change all that. Pitches know that if they don't work fast enough out there on the mound, the infielders and outfielders won't be very happy. "Get the ball, get back on the hill," Hershiser says. "Get the ball, get back on the hill. You don't want your fielders in a bad mood...
...golf course is a really neat place,” coach Kevin Rhoads said. “The course we played had a really neat design and was immaculately maintained.” But the course owes its notoriety to its difficulty, especially with greens that are not only fast but also sloped. “It played very difficultly, shown by the pretty high scores for us and evidenced by the rest of the field—[it] was hard for everyone,” Rhoads said. According to junior Ali Bode, the challenging greens placed an emphasis...