Word: rackingly
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...Beijing weighed in with the head-snapping pronouncement that there was not enough evidence of counterfeiting at the Silk Market to convict. As I stood there, a young lady from the stall nearest me pulled at my sleeve, trying to get me to come over and view a rack of t-shirts, many of them emblazoned with the names of the very companies that had sued: Versace, Louis Vuitton, Prada and Levi...
...site but in the sultanate. Lavish details are everywhere: gold leaf on the lobby ceiling, hand-tufted Indian carpets and works from some of Oman's most eminent artists. In guest rooms, taps are gold plated and pillows are filled with goose down. Should the $728-a-night rack rate prove a deterrent, choose from the four-star Al Bandar or the mid-range Al Waha. With its casual restaurants and toddler pools, the latter is aimed at young families. The former, geared to couples or parents with older children, offers a teens' club, boutiques and a nightclub. The resort...
...Andes thought Washington was really engaging those needs, it might well give Chavez and his ilk less of an excuse to move further left. It might also help Latin America find its own third way between radical socialism and reactionary capitalism, extremes that pulled the region like a torture rack for most of the 20th century...
...dollar weak, it's all proving quite manageable. "We can feel the U.S. slowdown, but it's not unsettling. There's no crash," Leibinger-Kammüller says. Trumpf's sales of its metal-cutting machines elsewhere--to Saudi Arabia, to Singapore and especially in Germany--continue to rack up double-digit growth rates. The buoyancy of global trade "is amazing. We have to keep telling ourselves: Careful, this can't last," she says...
...Demand from the U.S., the firm's second-largest market after Germany, has accounted for a significant part of this growth. But even though the pace of American orders is now slowing, Trumpf's sales elsewhere-from Saudi Arabia to Singapore, and especially back home in Germany-continue to rack up double-digit growth rates. "We can feel the U.S. slowdown, but it's not unsettling. There's no crash," Leibinger-Kamm?ller says. The continuing buoyancy of global trade "is amazing. We have to keep telling ourselves: Careful, this can't last...