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...Hong Kong's importance? Ever since the city was founded by the British in 1841, its harbor has been a major stop on trade routes, its dockside warehouses stuffed with silks and the other valuable wares of Asia. Hong Kong prospered as China's entrep?t, and its traders had tight links to the Chinese market; Li & Fung, for example, was founded as a trading company in Guangzhou in 1906. But when the Communist Party took power in China in 1949, exports from China slowed to a trickle. Hong Kong then became a formidable manufacturing hub in its own right?until...
Virgin America is in a frenzied, last-ditch effort to get the DOT to change its mind, so the airline is turning to would-be customers for help. The company had planned to keep a tight lid on details about its planes until tickets went on sale. That strategy is history as the airline seeds websites like YouTube, Flickr and Digg with stories, pictures and video, hoping to gin up the sort of viral, user-generated movement that--we are told--now shapes our world. "We want to say to the consumers of America, this is what you're missing...
...SLOPPIER WITH YOUR SCHEDULE "If you keep a tight calendar and you're not a dentist or a hair stylist, try being looser and not packing as many things in," says Freedman. A less structured date book makes it easier to adapt to inevitable surprises and affords you freedom to just go with the flow...
...were supposed to consume every last drop of oil the world could produce, guaranteeing shortages for the rest of us. And with instability mounting in the Middle East as well as in major oil-producing countries like Nigeria and Venezuela, it was only logical to predict many years of tight supplies - and ludicrous profits for the ExxonMobils of the world...
...executive Dhirajlal Ambani. Known as Dhirubhai, Ambani rose from rural nobody to towering tycoon without the usual benefits of family wealth, education or connection. He was the founder and chairman of Reliance Industries, manufacturer of the polyester that clothed India (and in the 70s lent its kitchy style to tight-pantsed Bollywood actors like Amitabh). By Dhirubhai's death in 2002, Reliance was India's largest corporation, a leader in petrochemicals and a dozen other interests and the largest corporation. A Times of India poll in 2000 chose him as Greatest Creator of Wealth in the Century...