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...have been Vietnam's 34 small private banks such as Sacombank that, unlike the state-owned banks, are relatively unburdened by government directives aimed at managing the economy. Catering to individual depositors and small-business borrowers, private lenders have powered much of the industry's recent growth. Among their target customers are people like Nguyen Thi Tuyet. Four years ago, the 30-year-old Hanoi travel agent became the first person in her family to open a bank account when she made a deposit in Agribank. Recently, she opened a second account with Techcombank, one of the country's private...
...found his own copy of the receipt for the Glock 19. He also saw that Cho had bought a $10 box of 50 9-mm practice rounds, commonly know as full metal jacket rounds because they don't expand on contact like hollow-point rounds. These are sold for target shooting...
...foothold in the American corporate machine, it's easy to forget that the biggest innovations in the newly socially conscious market usually begin with a very small and pure idea. In the case of Erbaorganics, a new line of bath and body products for mothers and infants available at Target that will benefit the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), it was as simple as a baby massage...
...broader audience than we could through our higher-end line," says Brown, who was a camera operator (Fargo, Dead Man Walking) before leaving the film business to help start Erbaviva more than 10 years ago in the couple's kitchen in Topanga Canyon, Calif. "Then we were approached by Target, which was familiar with us and interested in developing a secondary line to sell in its stores." Erbaorganics was conceived, and so was Brown and Cirronis' commitment to donating 15% of the sales from Erbaorganics' Baby Body Oil and Baby Body Wash to the WWO. "We're not a huge...
...Stacy’s Mom” dealt with teenage lust, but the band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses all its topics—from crushing on DMV workers to being the target of hitmen—with perceptive, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, wit. The first two albums released by Fountains of Wayne, headed by New Jersey natives Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, were only moderately successful (read: largely ignored by the mainstream). With their 2003 record, “Welcome Interstate Managers...