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...survive after 2005, when exporters will have to compensate for falling prices by selling more volume, is unclear. Joshi of the Children's Place adds that, unlike China, India still doesn't have many large, modern apparel factories and that its often antiquated plants might struggle to handle the flood of new orders. For India, he says, "it will be like surfing a wave for 18 months. Either the country will drown under the inflow or will learn to glide...
...tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent ear to his lecture on Odin at the British Museum in 2001 (not batting an eyelash at his warrior - god face paint or the orange hairspray that...
...flood of credit-card offers into your mailbox is set to increase following a court decision last week that opened the door for American Express and Discover to pursue your business more aggressively. By opting not to hear the last-possible appeal of an antitrust ruling against MasterCard and Visa, the Supreme Court ended a six-year legal battle over how the two market leaders blocked rivals from partnering with card-issuing banks. American Express announced that it would roll out credit cards with MBNA, and Discover is pursuing new partners too. The change comes at a time when consumers...
...wasn’t until the second half that the Crimson managed to break open the flood gates against the Big Red, when it scored two goals within four minutes of each other to take a 3-0 lead, and hammer the nail in the coffin...
...entire political, business and religious establishment of the state--including Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, Republican Senator John McCain and the state's three Catholic bishops--is lined up against it. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is also campaigning for its defeat. But such is the backlash against the flood of undocumented Mexicans pouring over the border that the "Protect Arizona Now" initiative seems almost a sure bet to pass...