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...Despite his feisty talk, Gaddafi is a near-perfect customer for Sarkozy, if not quite yet his savior. Flush with revenues from record-high oil prices, the Libyan leader is rebuilding his military virtually from scratch, since decades-long Western sanctions banned him from purchasing arms and replacing broken equipment. "Libya's military inventories during the embargoes degraded to the point of being useless," says Matthew Smith, economics analyst for Jane's, the London-based defense research group. The organization this week estimates Libya's military spending was about $620 million last year - small change for the gargantuan defense industry...
...Asian American experience from an East Asian perspective,” he said. While operating within East Asian studies is not ideal, Zen said, it’s a beginning. “Basically,” she said, “we’re starting from scratch all over again...
...product: the aptly named 1960 film “Scent of Mystery.” The American film director John Waters (“Hairspray”) released a separate “Odorama” version of his film “Polyester” in 1982 using scratch and sniff cards, but the idea of films that stimulated the nose as well as the ears and eyes never quite caught on.Dickerson aims to change that with a slightly different approach using essential oils and oscillating fans. She previously presented her concept this summer in New York City?...
...benefits. “The master plan is going to take a long time,” he said. “We don’t think that the next couple of weeks or months are going to be the end, it’s barely going to scratch the surface.” The University says it will submit its master plan to the city next spring. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...boost revenues, some Savile Row tailors have licensed franchises in Asia. Others, like Boateng and Gieves & Hawkes, also sell ready-to-wear and made-to-measure clothes. The latter, unlike bespoke, are altered from block patterns rather than being custom-made - bespoke suits are cut by hand from scratch to meet the buyer's exact build, gleaned from 35 different measurements and requiring at least three fittings, and then stitched almost entirely by hand...