Word: retail
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...mature, first-world city. The stock market has dipped in recent weeks because of the global slump in equities, but is still up about 20% against a year ago. Real estate-a key and much-watched variable in Hong Kong-is robust again, and retail sales rose 7.3% in 2006 from the previous year's figure. It's not just car fumes in the air, but the smell of money...
...before the New Hampshire primary without sacrificing much of a head start. If primaries are all early, however, candidates will need to build up their appeal and bank accounts long before the primaries start, pushing the campaign season far earlier. This trend also undercuts the time-honored practice of retail politics: Presidential candidates had the time and incentive—particularly in small states—to get to know as many voters as they could on as personal a level as possible. Without a protracted process that allows candidates time to actually meet with members of the voting public...
...illegal scheme allegedly using information stolen from UBS Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. SEC spokesman Scott Friestad told TIME, "The Commission intends to scrutinize other trading that is highly suspicious in nature," directly tied to the case involving Catellas Development, a California-based developer of residential, retail and office and other properties. Though declining to identify those under scrutiny in the continuing probe, he said additional charges could be forthcoming against others who may have known or benefited from the alleged criminal activity...
...Toward the northern edge of Bennelong, the sprawling Macquarie Centre is a temple to the boom in consumer spending that has re-kitted Australia in the Plasma Age; in the food court, Anglo-Australians eat noodles and Indochinese go for burgers, fried chicken and donuts. It's retail Disneyland, free of menace, with a throng of brisk walkers. Shoppers here have money but not a lot of time. Howard is a security blanket for the striving class. People feel that he is not only sympathetic to their ends, he is prepared to support the means as well. Life for swing...
...Tompkins ruefully says now). All that changed when he became involved in radical environmental projects - what he calls his "restoration work," returning native animal and plant species to the nation-sized swaths of property he owns. He and his wife Kristine McDivitt, a former CEO of the Patagonia clothing retail chain and wealthy in her own right, believe in deep ecology, a severe branch of the movement that believes in restoring the original ecological balance of the earth. Tompkins is fond of reminding listeners that unless runaway consumerism is halted "we humans will be building ourselves a beautiful coffin...