Word: glasgowe
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...says it plans to spend more than $1 billion on its European expansion over the next five years. "When Ralph invests, it's for the long term," says Ron Baron, CEO of Baron Funds, which has $137 million invested in Polo Ralph Lauren. First up: new stores in Manchester, Glasgow and Antwerp, as well as in London and Paris. To start, the company will focus on just half of Lauren's many offerings, including the top-of-the-line collections for men and women, children's wear, men's sportswear and Ralph Lauren Blue Label, a new women's casual...
...four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone towers in southeastern Bosnia were a meeting place for Serbs, Croats and Muslims as well as travelers from as far away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried to protect their bridge by swaddling it in old blankets and rubber tires. But the shelling continued, and one bleak November morning in 1993 the arch...
...Rolls-Royce workers in Scotland who, just days after Pinochet and his fellow military chiefs seized power in 1973, had refused to service the engines of eight British-made Hawker Hunter fighter jets like those used to attack Chile's presidential palace. The standoff at the engine plant near Glasgow lasted five years. Apart from his discussion of Chile's covert assistance to Britain during the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina - for which Thatcher was deeply grateful to Pinochet - Beckett's focus on political symbiosis seems narrow. "You could say," he writes, "that Britain and Chile have acted as each...
...remember is that thousands of lives were lost. People should stop blaming those who, even if they had done everything in their power, probably wouldn't have been able to stop the attacks. We should now focus on how to keep this from ever happening again. CAITLIN LOUGHEED Glasgow...
...colleagues, friends (and many ex-friends), Crick exposes the mess of contradictions, shenanigans and charms of the man known always to his players as the Boss. Ferguson, now 60, grew up in the shadow of the shipyard his family had worked in for generations in Govan, a district of Glasgow where the running battles of Catholic-Protestant sectarianism and workers' rights were fought on the soccer pitch and the shop floor. As a trainee tool cutter and trade union organizer, Ferguson was at the front of an apprentices' strike for better pay in 1960 and again led a walkout...