Word: levying
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...Board consumer confidence index crashed from 93.7 to a nine-year low of 79.4, while surveys in Germany, France and the U.K. also showed a loss of faith in the economy. Mario Vs. Super Mario The score was Mario Monti 1, Nintendo €149 million, as the European Commission levied its fifth-largest fine ever against the Japanese video-games company for keeping prices artificially high in some E.U. states during the 1990s. Gross Domestic Product When hundreds of ASDA's British supermarket customers were caught illegally using vegetable oil as a cheap, tax-free fuel, the company...
...implying in any way that mobile phones are dangerous." CEDRIC JUNGPETER, "European communications manager for Levi Strauss, on their new line of jeans with "anti-radiation" lining in pockets designed for cell phones...
...Preparing For The Worst Russia began offering foreign companies insurance against corrupt judges, officials and politicians. The initiative is intended to boost foreign investment, which fell 25% this year. But after last week's kidnapping of Lukoil vice president Sergei Kukura, investors may not be quite convinced. Pocket Protector Levi Strauss, the jeans group, may soon be a dirty word in the telecom industry - and not just because those button flies are so tricky. Levi's is unveiling a new line of trousers with "antiradiation" mobile-phone pockets, even though research has shown no definitive radiation risk to phone users...
...fourth rider to win four in a row. By dominating the mountain stages, he proved that the Tour hasn't changed, that he is still the master of this race. "After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever," said Team Rabobank's Levi Leipheimer, an American who finished eighth in his first Tour...
Open two years, Blanket Bay is the dream project of Tom Tusher, 61, a former president of Levi Strauss. The lodge's nine spacious rooms and four secluded chalets offer spectacular views of the lake and the mountains. Each room and chalet features a private terrace, the finest linens and a huge bathroom with sauna. Blanket Bay's five-course dinners include such native specialties as venison medallions and scallops from the Tasman Sea. And the all- New Zealand wine list features delicious reds from Central Otago. Visit blanketbay. com for more information...