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...dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away as Hyderabad and even Mumbai (formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything below standard. Uniformed men spray lemons with water, cover crates of coriander with moistened burlap to stop the greens wilting and scan bar codes on the end of each crate. Reliance will soon install air-conditioners to keep the warehouse at 18?C even when the outside...
...Chinese face the same problems as the U.S. officials - they simply can't inspect every single shipment, but they are on the right track," van Dijk says. China has signed on some key international monitoring rules, but the scale of trade makes oversight difficult...
...next couple months with a detailed, convincing bill of indictment against Iran and Hizballah (unlike Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's supposed confession), we should expect a confrontation. For instance, in the late '80s Hizballah, under IRGC orders, sent plastic explosives to secret cells around the world. Only one shipment was intercepted. The others are presumably still in place. If Asgari helps us dig one up, the Administration has a propaganda weapon it never had going into the Iraq...
...escape from Mickey Drexler in the halls of J. Crew headquarters. A few weeks ago, the ceo of the retailer known for its mail-order catalog and preppy style was visiting a store in Palo Alto, Calif., when he got a rave review from its manager about the latest shipment of clothes. This, Drexler felt, all 550 employees at the company's New York City office needed to know immediately, so he called HQ and got patched into the p.a. system. "We just gotta keep doing it," the boss's voice boomed through hallways lined with racks of Argyle sweaters...
...Yongbyon, where it's believed to have produced the fissile material needed to make the six to 10 nuclear weapons Kim is estimated to possess. Pyongyang has also promised to allow international inspectors into the country to verify compliance. In return, the North is to receive an emergency shipment of fuel oil from the U.S., China, Russia and South Korea. If all that goes well, Pyongyang would receive more humanitarian aid, and the U.S. and North Korea would begin discussing an end to the standoff between the two countries that has lasted for more than a half-century...