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...went on to endorse speedy reforms in taxation, banking and investment to provide a more sophisticated financial system for the nurturing of sustained growth. But those reforms will take time to bite. In the short term, it was far from clear how Beijing could control a renewed torrid growth rate without setting off a new round of inflation and speculation...
...Give Racism the Boot." That politically correct advertising slogan, combined with environmentally conscious products, has turned Timberland Co. of Hampton, New Hampshire, into a hot marketer and a torrid stock. With customers from suburban professionals to inner-city youths clamoring for its rugged boots and outdoorsy apparel, Timberland last month reported the strongest third-quarter sales and profits in its 20-year history...
...film cobbles together its story line from every half-baked rumor that ever surfaced about the famous pair. Bobby and Marilyn had a torrid affair, we learn, that was witnessed almost every step of the way by surveillance men hired by Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters boss even orders Bobby killed, but the would-be assassin, after training his telescopic sight on the couple smooching in a park, chickens out. Good thing, since Mafia boss Sam Giancana shortly thereafter tells Hoffa to lay off because the Mob is "doing a little business" with the Kennedy brothers...
Weather is almost impossible to predict more than a week or two in advance. But when it comes to climate -- the long-term weather averages that make the U.S. temperate and the tropics torrid -- scientists are confident that they understand the overall pattern. Over the past million years or so, the planet has swung between ice ages lasting on the order of 100,000 years and interglacial periods of about 10,000. During each phase, the climate is pretty steady. It's the stability of the current interglacial epoch, which began 10,000 years ago, that made the invention...
...candy in a xocolateria on your way to a sparkling wine bar--a xampanyeria--called Xampau Xampany. Moreover, a government-printed language textbook eachews the dry repetitions of "amo amas amat" that filled my high-school Latin primer and replaces them with two unclothed cartoon Catalans locked in a torrid embrace...