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...Indian Ocean island to identify a mystery illness that has killed at least 184 people. The viral infection, with initial symptoms including headaches, pains and stomach cramps, is thought to have affected around 1,900 people in June and July. Most of the victims live in poor, isolated rural communities. Average incomes halved this year owing to a seven-month political crisis that ravaged the economy...
...confirmed that the public offering of Groupe Bruxelles shares would proceed, but he ruled out the family's selling any of its holdings. "A change of the enterprise strategy was appropriate because of the quick and dramatic changes on the world markets," he said. In other words, the insular, rural German culture of Gütersloh had triumphed over the Anglo-Saxon...
...some regions, it's more than that. After the U.S. decided to close its military air base at Hahn in the rural Eifel region of western Germany in 1991, the local economy went into a steep decline. The withdrawal of around 15,000 troops meant that shops and hotels lost customers, and some 850 civilians at the base lost their jobs. Then came Ryanair. The airline looked at the base in 1999 and decided it was perfectly positioned to provide an international hub for its central European operations. The locals were thrilled. "When the Americans left the future looked bleak...
...movie is, I suppose, an expos? of religious fanaticism - a strange agenda to set before his mostly rural, most Southern audiences. Didn't matter: Meyer always poured so much kinetic Kickapoo Joy Juice into his social parodies that few but the prudish could take offense. "Lorna" was not only big at "the ticket wickets," it pleased the rubes, not to mention the movie exhibitors who made money from them. "What a joy to see on a warm romantic Kansas City night," Bev Winter, a Kansas City film broker, wrote to Meyer - "a full drive-in with all those cars shakin...
...grow primarily by tapping market segments the global brands largely ignore. Li Ning shoes?distinguished by a logo that resembles Nike's famous swoosh, but with a foxtail attached?sell for $40 dollars?less than half the price of top-of-the-line foreign sneakers. They are popular in rural China, but not in the country's wealthier coastal cities, where residents prefer foreign brands. Li Ning Sports "is an old brand and it certainly needs revitalization," says Xue Xu, a marketing professor at Peking University and an expert on domestic brands. Moreover, Xue says there is "danger ahead" because...