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This kind of growth attracts company, and Bass Pro's closest rival is Cabela's, which went public last year. Stock-market analysts are already nervous that the two companies are growing so fast that they will begin to clash directly, although, as Hagale says, it's a big country. The boat business doesn't have clear sailing either. Industry leader Brunswick is on a vertical-integration tear, a strategy that brought another firm, Outboard Marine, into bankruptcy. Genmar stepped in to feed on the remains, but Jacobs warns that a further shakeout looms in a market that is stagnant...
...money for North Korea; to the Macau government, in an attempt to stop a run on the bank; in Macau. Last month the U.S. Treasury Department called the bank a "primary money laundering concern" and proposed severing its ties to the American financial system. Over the following three days, nervous depositors withdrew about $39 million, or 10% of the bank's deposits. Bank officials deny the U.S. allegations...
...outraged Ganguly told the Indian press that Chappell was demanding he resign as captain; Ganguly threatened to quit the team in protest. Days later, in an e-mail to India's cricket board which was leaked to the media, Chappell described the 32-year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested he needed to step down as captain to focus on improving his game. The bust-up has riveted India, where, as the Bombay tabloid Mid Day noted, "the game is religion." The spat has played endlessly on local TV, while rival protesters have burned effigies of Chappell...
...pull out our IDs and prove our age. Inside the gate, brightly dressed revelers tripped down the clean streets. Mosquitoes were everywhere, as were, we realized, bachelorette parties: flocks of heavily made-up women trying hard to get another woman, identical to them except for her painfully nervous manners and lace veil, as intoxicated as possible...
...Last year, with Iona as my first collegiate race, I was nervous,” Scherf says. “This year, I felt like the experience really made a difference. I was more composed and confident, and my hard work over the past couple months has improved both stamina and fitness...