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...usually just two weeks after suppliers have received the order. The result: Topshop debuts hundreds of new pieces in its London flagship outlet every week. And if the emphasis on speed and stylishness means Topshop's togs are a bit more expensive, then so be it. That's a premium the chain's customers have come to expect and are willing to pay for. "If we can get it in four weeks in the U.K., we'll buy it at four weeks in the U.K. rather than buying it cheaper" elsewhere over a longer time frame, says Karyn Fenn, Topshop...
...legal precedent for protecting user privacy,” she said. But Mayer-Schoenberger said that search engines could sell personally identifiable information to outside organizations, such as the government, businesses, or even health insurance providers. He proposed a hypothetical case where a health insurance company might raise a premium for a client who searched online for “cancer.” In the paper, Mayer-Schoenberger writes that a limit should be set on how long information remains personally identifiable. While Google announced in March that it would make server logs anonymous after 18 to 24 months...
...Monthly magazine last October, Rudd eulogized a personal hero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and martyr who opposed the Nazi state. Rudd's targets were the Christian right and the incumbents in Canberra. He claimed Howard employed "radioactive soundbites" to manipulate the truth and called for "a new premium attached to truth in public life." In the next issue of the magazine, Rudd again preyed on the P.M., arguing that the government's new industrial relations laws "would have deeply offended the responsible conservatism and social liberalism of Robert Menzies"-Australia's longest-serving leader and a hero to Howard...
...That's because the economics of green products still don't make sense for average consumers, who remain unwilling to pay premium prices for appliances and other big-ticket items offering questionable individual benefits. Take solar power, an area where Sanyo is a significant competitor. Although numerous start-ups in the U.S., China and Taiwan have been investing in the technology over the past two years, generating electricity from solar panels is still at least twice as expensive as buying it from the fossil fuel-reliant U.S. utility grid. Experts say the solar-power industry will need support from government...
...TRADE 40% Tariff on U.S. beef that South Korea will phase out over the next 15 years, part of a landmark free-trade agreement reached April 2 between Washington and Seoul that will eliminate tariffs on most types of goods traded between the two countries 400% Premium above global market prices that South Koreans will continue to pay for rice, due to tariffs and subsidies protecting Korean rice farmers that Seoul refused to eliminate as part of the trade deal