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...which bear a logo that looks like Nike's swoosh with a foxtail attached. Li says the affluent Chinese he is now targeting are too young to remember his feats on the pommel horse. "I wish I were as popular as I used to be," Li says with a sigh. It's a fate Jordan, 39, has also suffered. Sales of the Air Jordan are down this year...
...corporate image overhaul to get younger, more affluent Chinese to wear the brand. Li, now 39, isn't recognizable to a hipper generation that follows NBA basketball and the English Premier League on TV. Fans "used to come by the thousands when I opened outlets," Li says with a sigh. "Senior local officials, mayors, even local provincial governors. Today, only a few people show up. I wish I were still as popular as I used to be. But I guess that's a fact of life...
...ends in an impasse. Thirty-six days later, after hearing more about aging Florida voters, chads and the intricacies of judicial voting processes than should ever be desired, Gore finally concedes the election to Bush, a graduate of the Harvard Business School. The fiasco over, the nation breathes a sigh of relief...
...lingering question is whether this is a false bottom?a prelude to another period of stagnation. "Really, you just have to look at these numbers and sigh," says Andrew Shipley, chief economist at WestLB Securities in Tokyo. "I mean, we've seen this several times before. You get a recovery kick started by the comeback in the U.S.; then it stalls because there is no increase in domestic spending." During the so-called "lost decade," a long bout of recession was interrupted twice by short-lived recoveries...
...intervene. And on April 23rd, the court did just that, ruling that until it approved the new plan, the primaries should be held on May 21st under the old plan. Moving the primary, the court determined, would have caused too much mayhem. Rendell and Casey breathed a collective sigh of relief and went back to fighting each other. Republicans didn't put up much of a fuss, because they were still pretty sure they would score a big win in the congressional races. And they comforted themselves with the knowledge that if the court had not intervened, they would have...