Word: palming
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...expected weakening of the U.S. economy and an ailing dollar, which makes Asian products more expensive for U.S. consumers and curbs export growth. But a new factor putting the brakes on Asia is China. Over the past two years, soaring demand from China for everything from steel to palm oil to semiconductors has been the engine driving Asian economies. Fear of overheating, however, has forced Beijing's policymakers to curtail bank lending and new investment. For next year, Morgan Stanley expects China to grow at a still swift 7%, but that's much slower than the 9.5% forecast...
...solution: thanks to Parker in Your Palm ($30-$50), wine lovers can download ratings and tasting notes for more than 55,000 wines from eRobertParker.com and store them in a Palm personal digital assistant. No need to judge a wine by its label anymore. Cheers...
...wine guru Robert Parker when selecting the perfect bottle. But leafing through a stack of Parker's Wine Advocate newsletters isn't an attractive option when you're picking wine at a restaurant or browsing the aisles of a wine shop. A new solution: thanks to Parker in Your Palm ($30-$50), wine lovers can download ratings and tasting notes for more than 55,000 wines from eRobertParker.com and store them in a Palm personal digital assistant. No need to judge a wine by its label anymore. Cheers...
Pakistani editors invited to break the Ramadan fast last week with President Pervez Musharraf were treated to palm dates, curried pastries and some unexpected news?a radical new approach to Pakistan's bitter, 57-year-old dispute with India over Kashmir...
...secret that ceramic and interior-design whiz kid Jonathan Adler is obsessed with all things preppy, from Ice Storm--style needlepoint pillows to Palm Beach pink and green. Adler is bringing his obsession--and his clean, graphic 1950s-inspired style--to festive fir trees and mantelpieces around America in a new collection of holiday ornaments and decorative accessories designed for Hold Everything, the Williams-Sonoma--owned home-accessories resource. "It's a modern take on Christmas, with lots of groovy geometry and improbable interpretations of traditional holiday colors. Instead of red and forest green, we did pink and lime," says...