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...beyond the big cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou. "Chongqing is one of the most populated cities in the world, with nearly 32 million people. And there are at least 100 cities in China with more than a million people." While Wong preaches caution when it comes to the numbers???only a tiny percentage of China's population can afford luxury goods?she says it is vital to recognize that many now know about brands. "Always give them the latest. What Hong Kong has, China has to have," she counsels. As for the future, Wong predicts that by 2012, consumer...
People can't even agree who won the state last time; Democrats have already filed nine lawsuits this year challenging election rules. Kerry needs a big turnout in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. Bush needs big numbers??in the Panhandle and the southern Gulf Coast. Both sides want to win the area stretching from Tampa to Orlando to Daytona Beach--the fastest-growing area in the state...
Even among fellow Slavs there are sharp tensions. Russians tend to regard Ukrainians as ne'er-do-well country cousins, an attitude that Ukrainians, with their distinct cultural traditions and strong ethnic pride, resent and resist. Out of deference to their numbers???42 million, the second largest nationality?the Soviet leadership has sought to create a limited partnership with the Ukrainians. They are the only non-Russians to have significant representation in the central elite...
According to the FBI, that was only a day after Rifkin had dropped by the bank headquarters in Los Angeles and descended in an unmarked elevator to Operations Unit One on level D. There he talked his way into the wire transfer room, where he learned the secret code numbers???which are changed daily as a precaution?for transferring money between the bank and others, both in the U.S. and abroad. That done, he sauntered...
...conflicts, no difficulties, nor, for that matter, any obligations or visible attachments," he says. "The old, the ugly or the unwanted is simply made to disappear through a manhole." From the New Left comes the criticism that since the show's emphasis is on achievementlearning letters and numbers??it is merely the bottom rung on the escalator to Charles Reich's Consciousness II. From the Old Guard comes the suspicion that the "switched-on" classroom is aimed at the eventual displacement of the teacher by an unsalaried cathode-ray tube...