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This kind of growth attracts company, and Bass Pro's closest rival is Cabela's, which went public last year. Stock-market analysts are already nervous that the two companies are growing so fast that they will begin to clash directly, although, as Hagale says, it's a big country. The boat business doesn't have clear sailing either. Industry leader Brunswick is on a vertical-integration tear, a strategy that brought another firm, Outboard Marine, into bankruptcy. Genmar stepped in to feed on the remains, but Jacobs warns that a further shakeout looms in a market that is stagnant...
...Beijing's control of the Internet is bolstered by its success at enlisting the aid of foreign companies such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!, all of which run online operations on the mainland. The fast- growing China market is key to their global strategies, and they are loath to antagonize their host nation. Yahoo!'s China operation was widely criticized last month for turning over information to the police that helped send journalist Shi Tao to prison for 10 years (Shi had posted a list of topics that Chinese newspapers were forbidden to cover, including the anniversary...
...aesthetic unity alone cannot answer the obvious question—mainly, how can you pull off a fast-paced thriller when almost all of the film’s action occurs in the claustrophobic confines of an airplane? The suspense in “Flightplan” lies in its subtleties—in its application of fast-moving cuts and disjunctive editing. The quietest moments of stillness, soft cues of music and whispers, and Foster’s restlessness project as much tension and charged anxiety as any proliferation of explosion-powered chase sequences might...
It’s dangerous. It’s fast. And it’s spreading pandemonium in the swamps of Louisiana…but on the silver screen, not the weather channel...
Junior receiver Corey Mazza began this week optimistic that he was a “fast healer” and would return to action soon from an ankle injury that knocked him out of the game last weekend against Brown...