Word: slow
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Ironically, some of the brands Li & Fung is snapping up are the very ones it helped doom: American labels that were slow to export manufacturing overseas. Last year it acquired the license to sell Royal Velvet, a home-textiles brand that went bust in '03. "We wanted a company that knew how to source overseas," says Rick Platt, managing director of Official Pillowtex LLC, which bought the bankrupt firm...
...people won't read it, or even want to hear about it, because they have no intention of ever putting down those pork franks or cigars or going on that 30-minute run. They will go on telling any one of the fairy tales that people who are committing slow suicide always tell themselves and each other: that they are happy with their choices, that they have no regrets, that when your time is up it's all to do with the archaic cosmological notion called fate and nothing to do with...
...That's a slow process, though. It took 18 years of measurements before the presence of the planet could be confirmed. Now an entirely new planet-hunting strategy, centered on a type of star nobody has been looking at, could reveal in as little as a year a habitable, Earthlike planet--and if the scientists get lucky, more than...
...dollar. "The European economy is on tranquilizers," retorted Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration. She argues that Europe is both too complacent about its weak growth and strong common currency, and too slow to boost its international competitiveness in response to surging U.S. and Chinese productivity...
...ourselves as hedonists because that would be too self-conscious. Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust its own talents...