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...billion business, which reached 25% in 2004, is expected to slip to below 10% by 2010. A few retailers like Zappos.com, which sold $600 million worth of shoes and accessories last year, still entice shoppers with free overnight shipping. But that's a big expense for any business to swallow. So more often than not, consumers pay a premium to get goods shipped, and then spend anxious days waiting for their new bathing suit, DVD box set or laptop computer to arrive...
...uproar that was triggered in the U.S. when CNOOC tried to buy the Los Angeles-- based Unocal. The lessons, say people involved in the deal, have been seared into the brains of the Chinese and have been evident in the plays in Barclays and Blackstone. Rather than trying to swallow big, high-profile Western firms in one bite, the Chinese are taking smaller, strategic stakes and working, in the case of the Barclays deal, with another prominent partner, Temasek...
...protectionist uproar that was triggered in the U.S. when CNOOC tried to buy the Los Angeles-based Unocal. The lessons, say people involved in the deal, have been seared into their brains, and have been evident in the Chinese investments in Barclays and Blackstone. Rather than trying to swallow big, high-profile Western firms in one bite, the Chinese are taking smaller, strategic stakes and working, in the case of the Barclays deal, with another prominent partner, Temasek...
...Iraq is not Japan or Germany; nor is it Vietnam (though, as hard as it is for Bush's critics to swallow, the notion that a Saigon-like pullout from Iraq would embolden and empower al-Qaeda and its sympathizers worldwide is hardly idle.) It's not even Malaya, where the British fought insurgents from 1948 to 1960 - a struggle that informs, to a degree, the current U.S. counterinsurgency strategy now being implemented by General David Petraeus. And it is most certainly not Korea...
...newspaper Press a few days before the contest took place. It claimed that an alliance of Western powers was looking to fix the event in order to ensure Serifovic's victory. Explaining this conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from Serbia, while Moscow sides with Belgrade in opposing it.Still, the same newspaper...