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...embattled insurance giant, has sponsored the U.S. Davis Cup team since 1999, an agreement that ends this year: if the company hadn't floundered, odds are it would have renewed the deal. Now the United States Tennis Association has to fish for a new sponsor in a very soft market. The sports-facility boom could also take a hit: the economy will likely delay ground-breaking for the new Florida Marlins stadium in Miami...
...most recent examples were deliberately aimed at upscale, upwardly mobile clients. The Boyners have fully participated in this boom; for luxury goods alone, they doubled their retail space over the past two years. But now luxury is taking a fall, and sales of all types of merchandise are soft. "There's no need for panic," Boyner says, "but this is the point where you need to be very conservative." In her family's case, that means a freeze on all new investments, and a search for ways to cut operating costs. In one of the Boyners' biggest stores in Istanbul...
...Enter China. With nearly $2 trillion amassed in foreign currency holdings, China's government had the largesse this week to grant Zardari an immediate soft loan of upwards of $1 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times. "As a long friend of Pakistan, China understands it is facing some financial difficulties," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a briefing with journalists on Oct. 16. Other new measures include the increase of access Pakistani goods will have in China's markets as well as agreements to launch special economic zones within Pakistan with tax incentives for Chinese...
...hands, I noticed, were extraordinarily soft. The nails on his fingers were battered and clipped short?all but the pinkie, which had been painted with a delicate sheen of polish...
...Harvard’s current up-and-coming star, a skinny 6 foot 4 inch freshman called Dallas R. Simons, is calibrated to deflect such self-aggrandizing talk. The former captain of a Martin Luther King High School team that finished second in the nation his junior year, the soft-spoken Nashville native consistently ducks self-promotion...