Word: footholds
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...differences became more numerous, and if there are fewer today it's because clergy have adopted some of the celebrants' practices, such as longer, more personalized eulogies and multiple tributes from family and friends. While Australia and New Zealand remain the only countries where celebrancy has a firm foothold, fledgling movements have also arisen in the U.S. and Britain. "Funerals are in a state of flux," says Melbourne celebrant Dally Messenger, a movement pioneer. "Clergy have responded to the stimulus of competition. In my opinion, the best funerals in the world happen in Melbourne...
...traverse the gorge, from which we emerge bruised, tired and electrified. It's here that we truly slough off our normal lives; we might be journalists, public servants and businessmen out there, but in here we're hopelessly mortal, relying on our guides, ourselves and our next slippery foothold to get us through. Pat and our other guide, Dan, warn us that a fall here almost certainly means death, even as they have to leap onto wet rocks themselves to unsnag the rafts. We pull our little craft on ropes, use them as bridges to clamber over, tugging them...
...H5N1 is evolving so fast that it may gain the ability to infect humans by mutating on its own, without mixing with a human virus, much as SARS did. Yi says the latest outbreaks show that the virus has become endemic to the region, with a difficult-to-eradicate foothold in migratory birds, creating a biological time bomb that could go off without warning. With wide-scale production of an H5N1 human vaccine several months away at the earliest, experts are urging governments to clean up poultry farming and transportation, reassess live-market practices and intensify disease surveillance in birds...
They did. Five years later, Dhanin has reduced CP's debt and re-established its foothold in China. CP has set up a new brewery and a motorcycle factory and has announced plans to open 100 hypermarkets on the mainland by 2006. "If we don't go in now, we will be sidelined,'' says Dhanin. Chinese competitors, in particular, "are springing up like mushrooms after a rain...
...stores with diamonds, which could depress prices for years to come. ABN AMRO's Patnaik points out, however, that the market for diamonds could expand quickly as the burgeoning middle classes of China and India develop more of a taste for diamond jewelry. To make sure they secure a foothold in the Chinese market, some Surat businessmen have even started setting up workshops in China; another bonus is that wages there are lower than in India. Small wonder that many Indian merchants believe it's only a matter of time before they take over from Belgium's Hasidim as kingpins...