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...First you have the demographic bulge of the baby-boom generation heading into its 50s--prime time for arthritis. Add five decades of jogging (in less than perfect form), high-impact aerobics and fast-breaking sports like football, soccer, tennis and basketball, whose quick stops and sharp pivots do maximum damage to the knees and hips. (Gen Xers can look forward to the effects of video games on the thumbs, another body part that's particularly prone to osteoarthritis.) Finally, top it all off with a generation of Americans who are heavier than ever and whose weight is literally squeezing...
Then there were the decorative arts: hard-stone (pietre dure) inlays, gems, tapestries. The tapestries in particular were a way of extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs--fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed...
Chapa says he and Smith also share a desire to support student groups that serves to bridge their ideological differences. Their platform states that they will provide maximum funding to student groups...
Then there were the decorative arts: hard-stone (pietre dure) inlays, gems, tapestries. The tapestries in particular were a way of extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed...
...pushing forward at the moment of maximum pessimism? The short answer: because he is able to when no one else can. As the new entrant in a depressed sector and with the financial backing of a larger diversified company, Hutchison is rare among telecoms in that it is not really a telecom company at all. In Hutchison Whampoa's latest fiscal year, for example, telecommunications amounted to only 13% of total sales and 3% of earnings before interest and taxes. Hutchison Whampoa's management likes telecom's long-term prospects for fast growth and high returns, but only...