Word: meccas
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...food companies like South Korea's LG and Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia, targeting Muslims is also big business. LG offers an application to help users find the direction of Mecca, while Nokia has free downloadable recitations from the Koran and maps showing the locations of major mosques in the Middle East. Such offerings increase brand loyalty, according to market research by the Finland-based Muslim lifestyle portal Muxlim.com. "There's a lot of room out there for mainstream brands to appeal to Muslims without making changes to their products," says Muxlim.com's CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry. "It's just...
...most of the past five years, the Chinese gambling mecca of Macau seemed a sure bet. After the local government ended a decades-old gaming monopoly in 2002, some of the biggest casino and hotel operators in the world rushed in with new projects, eager to tap into the hoards of wealthy Chinese who increasingly flocked to the "Asian Las Vegas." The first American company to enter the market was Las Vegas Sands, which opened the Sands Macau casino in 2004 - and earned back its $285 million investment in only a year. U.S. casino mogul Steve Wynn, who opened...
...Miami's cost problem isn't a medical supply-and-demand issue. In fact, it's just the opposite, says Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association. As a result of the deluge of doctors and hospitals that have moved to the retiree mecca since the 1960s and '70s, chasing the lucrative Medicare business as well as the area's population boom, South Florida has an "excess capacity of health-care providers and institutions," Quick notes. And to make sure they all get a piece of the action, they've created a wasteful and ill-coordinated...
Despite the sometimes patronizing praise we have suddenly received ("California's cool has been stolen by, of all places, Iowa," wrote one New York pundit), it's not yet clear that Iowa has become the Midwest's gay marriage mecca. During the first week of legal gay marriage here, over 450 gay couples sought licenses, with the most requests in Polk County, followed by Johnson County (which includes the college town of Iowa City), according to a Des Moines Register survey. In Polk County, an initial rush of requests tapered off by the week's end. There have been scattered...
...film makers, among them Taran Davies ’93, were awarded the unusual permission by the authorities in Saudi Arabia, the “protectors of Mecca and Medina”, to shoot the scenes of the Hajj. They do not disappoint. There are spectacular scenes all presented in the vast screen panorama of IMAX. Some are very striking taken from air, showing the immense multitude that has congregated in their white garb – a reference to their attire on the Day of Judgment – circumambulating the sacred Ka’aba, the black cube...