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...turnaround could go a long way toward helping Esprit maintain its frenetic pace. "Because growth rates have started to slow down, they need to get into bigger markets where their penetration is low," says Macquarie retail analyst Ramiz Chelat in Hong Kong. Hello, U.S.A. By 2002, sales had fallen to $150 million, from $700 million in 1987, according to Macquarie. Krogner got control of Esprit's American business when Ying bought the U.S. trademark in 2002. (The company is now publicly traded; Ying owned 15.8% as of the end of 2005.) As part of the acquisition, Krogner forced a shutdown...
...called Jesus of Nazareth, not Jesus of any other city,? says Nazareth mayor Ramiz Jaraisy. TIME correspondent and Bethlehem resident Jamil Hamad counters: ?Bethlehem is the place Jesus was born. Not even the Vatican could compete with that...
Even more perilous than the gunfire is what the Bosnians call bijela smrt, the creeping "white death" that comes when exhaustion leads to sleep in the snow and thence to death. Ramiz Bezdrob, a 66-year-old house painter, succumbed on the night of Feb. 27 trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those...
Even with the arms embargo, the Bosnian army's Fifth Corps in Bihac is holding its own against the Serbs. Its commanders loudly reject the Vance-Owen proposal. "If they try to impose that plan," says Captain Ramiz Drekovic, "we will continue our war until we liberate Bosnia and Herzegovina. It could take a year, five years, 10 or a hundred...
...surged into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party hard- liners are in the ascendant, and last week's crackdown could even signal a return to the bad old days of Stalinist-style repression...