Word: shun
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...stifle growth. Either way, there is a general consensus that China is a serious competitor to the rest of Asia. And assuming nations in the region don't orchestrate a turnaround soon, the current slump might provide China with an opportunity to steal the show. Many foreign investors already shun Southeast Asian nations in favor of China's huge market and cheap manpower. The $1.9 billion that Motorola spent on a semiconductor plant in Tianjin last year was more than the company has invested in Malaysia in the past three decades. More companies are likely to choose China...
...Bernhard Willhelm and the duo at A.F. Vandevorst, also set up shop in Antwerp; they travel the 400 km to Paris twice a year to show at the Prêt-à-Porter collections. This isolationist instinct doesn't end at choice of headquarters. The graduates from Flanders also shun mainstream publicity, rarely granting interviews and often refusing to be photographed. The reason? They say they want their work - the image of their designs - to speak for itself...
Luke Woodham, who killed two classmates in Pearl, Miss., in 1997 after beating and stabbing his mother to death, gets very few visitors. The school friends of Michael Carneal, who killed three classmates in West Paducah, Ky., in 1997, largely shun him. From jail, Brazill continued to write love letters to Dinora Rosales, one of the girls he wanted to see when the teacher he killed, Barry Grunow, refused to allow Brazill inside the classroom because he had been suspended for throwing water balloons. But the 14-year-old Rosales, feeling threatened, turned the mash notes over to the police...
...Luke Woodham, who killed two classmates in Pearl, Miss., in 1997 after beating and stabbing his mother to death, gets very few visitors. The school friends of Michael Carneal, who killed three classmates in West Paducah, Ky., in 1997, largely shun him. From jail, Brazill continued to write love letters to Dinora Rosales, one of the girls he wanted to see when the teacher he killed, Barry Grunow, refused to allow Brazill inside the classroom because he had been suspended for throwing water balloons. But the 14-year-old Rosales, feeling threatened, turned the mash notes over to the police...
...IRAN Khatami Will Run President Mohammed Khatami ended months of intense speculation that he would shun a second term by announcing three days into the five-day official registration period that he would run for re-election. In a dramatic address, Khatami repeatedly broke down in tears as he described why, despite his personal inclination to step down, he had decided to run again for the sake of the nation. More than 180 people, including three women, have registered as candidates for the June 8 presidential election...