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...decade," says Gavin Rothwell, senior analyst at U.K. retail consultant Verdict Research. France, too, seems ready for a price war. Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy last week pledged to reform an eight-year-old law forbidding supermarkets from selling below cost price. Beleaguered Carrefour, Europe's largest retailer, cheered the prospect, hoping to take on discounters like Leader Price. But can chains make money selling products for less? If it raises consumer confidence, many of Europe's politicians won't mind. - By Adam Smith...
Nike is determined not to repeat the mistake. It has already signed China's next NBA prospect, the 7-ft. Yi Jianlian, 18, who plays for the Guangdong Tigers. And the company has resolved problems that dogged it a few years ago. Nike has cleaned up its shop floors. It cut its footwear suppliers in China from 40 to 16, and 15 of those sell only to Nike, allowing the company to monitor conditions more easily. At Shoetown in the southern city of Guangzhou, 10,000 mostly female laborers work legal hours stitching shoes for $95 a month--more than...
...McCareins takes the best receiver on the field and locks him down,” Murphy said. “I mean, he’s a pro prospect. So we have to be balanced. We can’t just say we’re going to run the ball because it’s such a great pass defense...
...players involved seem equally excited by the prospect of bringing their show to the Harvard audience, describing the various connections between the play and the college...
...Failure to generate jobs and wellbeing in Iran may be an even greater threat to the survival of the regime than the battle plans of Washington's neocons. One third of Iran's trade comes from the European Union, and Tehran's economic model is heavily dependent on the prospect of attracting significant foreign investment. On the other hand, Iran is a major oil supplier and conditions in the current world market would likely undermine prospects for sanctions. The recent vote on Sudan over the Darfur crisis made that clear - China, which imports most of Sudan's oil, voted against...