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After 20 years of nonstop growth, the furniture industry is on a downhill slide. According to the American Furniture Manufacturers Association, shipments dropped 10% last year, to $23 billion. Chains such as Montgomery Ward, Heilig-Meyers and Sears Homelife went bust, flooding the market with discounted furniture. "It was as bad an industry downturn as we've experienced in our careers," says Joel Havard, vice president of equity research at BB&T Capital Markets. Amid that wreckage, Mitchell Gold is opening its very first store, a self-contained shop at ABC Carpet & Home, the upscale New York City clearinghouse...
...HKJC has been off stride lately. With the racing season just past the halfway point, turnover is down by almost $200 million from the previous year, and a five-year slide in racetrack attendance shows no sign of abating. The troubled local economy is partly to blame. So too are new competitors: illegal bookies, Internet gambling and increasingly popular sporting alternatives such as football are all cutting into revenue. Late last year, big time British bookmaker William Hill began accepting online bets on races at Happy Valley and Sha Tin. The Jockey Club is not amused. "These guys are raiding...
...came to this obscure location because, on that day, Lu Pinchang had come to give a slide show and lecture. I attempted to do some online research about the man, but was unable to find anything substantial since much of his website is in Chinese. For someone who knows precious little about the universities of contemporary China, his resumé was little more than a laundry list of accomplishments revealing nothing...
Next up was the $200 Freebord (available at freebord.com) which looks like a regular skateboard from the top but has an extra set of wheels on the bottom that are supposed to let you "slide" across the pavement the way snowboarders slide across snow. Besides rolling forward and backward, you can slide side to side and spin around in circles. If you're really good, you might even master the half-pipe like gold medalist Russ Powers...
...joys of booze, the guitar boogies along just loud and hard enough--and without weighing down the melody--to suggest the pleasure he finds. When he delves into the pathos of not being able to quit, sickly sounding violins, set against a spare backdrop of guitar, drums and bass, slide in to signify self-loathing. What could be more Hank Williams...