- Unrest, rising costs hurt industry
China's lofty position as the world's No 1 exporter is under threat from surging costs, labour shortages and worker unrest, which erode the mainland's competitiveness, experts and industry players warn.
世界はなし1輸出だとして、中国の高尚な位置が脅威にさらされ本土の競争力、専門家や業界関係者をむしばむ、労働不足と労働者の不安、コストの高騰からは警告する
- Frequent Flier: Aloft, an Extended, but Sometimes Disquieting, Family
Coco Rocha, a Canadian fashion model, has family members who work at airlines. She feels she knows too much. ココロシャ、カナダのファッションモデルでは、人の航空会社で働く家族のメンバーがいます
- Moral crisis threatens Iran's Revolutionary Guards
Corruption has made many lower-ranked guardsmen in Iran's elite corps question what they are defendingThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was founded with the principal aim of protecting the achievements of the Islamic revolution in a military and ideological sense. Forged in the heat of revolution and defined by the Iran-Iraq war, the elite corps was intended to be a breeding ground for the new Islamic man who would take the revolution forward and maintain its purity.Originally it eschewed the standard hierarchical ranks of the traditional military, instead promoting an austere, egalitarian ethos. But the IRGC soon fell short of the lofty ideals it had set for itself as it grew to become one of Iran's most powerful – and wealthy – institutions. After all, the acquisition of power and money does tend to corrupt. That, plus the post-election crisis of the past year, and the ethical and ideological dilemmas that has created, combine to present the most serious challenge the organisation has ever faced.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made great play of the fact that he has come to sweep away the corruption and rampant materialism of the recent past, restoring the original revolutionary austerity of Iran – and also of the guards. Yet in practice he has only increased the corruption while removing any semblance of accountability. The guards have long been involved in business, but under Ahmadinejad they have moved from being beneficiaries to taking a controlling share. This has made many of the more senior officers rich. Not so much those lower down the ranks, however, who see the moral basis of the guards being eroded by material greed. In sum, for many guardsmen, they have become the establishment they grew up to despise. They pride themselves on being the guar _NULL_
- Feds Move To Liquidate Jet-Setter's Government-Backed Venture Firm
Jonathan Leitersdorf is an Israeli wheeler dealer with strong roots in New York. He reportedly spent $30 million building a 178-foot yacht that was once raided in the Mediterranean by masked pirates. He also used to own the 11,000-square foot Manhattan loft where Jerry Seinfeld was married and Chelsea Clinton had a birthday party before selling it to billionaire Ronald Burkle. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Cameron's new-born advantage
LONDON - For 150 years, British prime ministers were free to concentrate on the statesmanlike pursuit of high-powered diplomacy and the lofty responsibility of running the country, rather than the more mundane concerns of nappy changing... ロンドン - 150年間、英国の首相のハイパワー外交の政治家らしいを追求し、国を動かすという崇高な責任は、上のおむつを変更するのは、より世俗的な問題ではなく、集中して自由になった...
- Vladimir Zakian obituary
My father, Vladimir Zakian, who has died aged 75, lived his life in several countries. He was born in Cairo where his early life was not easy. As an insurgency raged, Vladimir's Italian mother hid her children in the loft of their house to save them from any murderous intruders. The family left Egypt, hitching a lift on a crocodile skin trader's truck which took them through wartorn Sudan to a new life in East Africa.In 1950 Vladimir was sent to the Prince of Wales school in Nairobi, Kenya, where he quickly had to master English. He was an all-rounder: the captain of his house athletics team, a participant in a gymnastics show staged for the visiting Princess Elizabeth and an entertainer, playing songs on his guitar (one of his fellow pupils was the singer Roger Whittaker).His grandfather was one of the principal engineers on the first Aswan Dam, and Vladimir went to Cardiff University to study civil engineering in preparation for running the family business. But with the Mau Mau uprising taking place in Kenya, his family decided to leave Africa.In 1957 Vladimir married my mother, Valerie. After completing his PhD, he was a lecturer in electrical engineering at Loughborough University, and in control systems – a branch of engineering and mathematics – at Manchester University. Vladimir excelled as an academic and a teacher and had the ability to make complicated ideas accessible.The suburban solace of our Cheshire home was Vladimir's antidote to his unsettled upbringing. But his wanderlust remained. Inspired by that alternative bible The Whole Earth Catalog, he announced in the 1970s that we were moving to New Zealand to live in a geodesic dome. The ideas kept coming, but – apart from a sabbatical in Philadelphia – we stayed put.In his field of control systems, he made null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- AnnTaylor Stock Gets Lift From LOFT
AnnTaylor is a leading specialty retailer of women's apparel, shoes and accessories in the United States, and competes with Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, J.Crew Group, and Limited Brands. We recently updated our model structure for AnnTaylor, adding two new divisions to account for the change in the firm’s reporting structure which now includes two e-commerce business segments, one for each of its Ann Taylor and LOFT brands. AnnTaylorは、婦人服、靴、米国のアクセサリーの大手の専門小売店であり、Aeropostale、アメリカンイーグル、Jクルーグループ、および限定ブランドと競合している
- World Cup 2010: Statistics from all the football World Cup finals since 1930
The football World Cup starts in South Africa in June. Find out which team has the best track record• Get the dataHost nation South Africa is making the final preparations for the football World Cup, which kicks off there next month. You can follow the build-up and coverage of the tournament on the Guardian microsite.Spain are the current favourites, though England are close behind with odds of 6/1. But who has triumphed at past World Cups? Who has scored the most goals (or let the most goals in)? And who has been caught offside most often in recent years?We've compiled a dataset of World Cup statistics since the first tournament in 1930, taken from the FIFA World Cup archive. Only seven teams have held the trophy aloft in the 18 tournaments held since 1930 (see table below). Brazil have the most wins, with five titles, but only top the table for the most games won (all seven in 2002). Perhaps surprisingly, Hungary have scored the most goals in a single tournament (27 in 1954), while Portugal have had the most shots on target (56 in 2006, though they only scored seven).Check out the table below for basic statistics for the winning teams, or download the spreadsheet for detailed data on every competitor at every World Cup finals tournament, including ISO codes, goals for and against, corners and penalties.Download the data• DATA: Statistics from every World Cup finals tournamentWorld government data• Search the world's government with our gatewayCan you do something with this data?Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk• Get the A-Z of data• More at the Datastore directory• Follow us on TwitterData summary World Cup 2010BrazilFifaKaty Stoddardguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | サッカーワールドカップが南アフリカで6月に開始されます
- Rents, prices heat up loft market
Rising rents and surging prices of apartments in Hong Kong are driving a trend towards conversions of older industrial and commercial buildings into lofts. Created with or without formal government approval in old or disused industrial and office buildings, loft apartments appeal to buyers or tenants in Hong Kong, say agents, because of their big spaces, high ceilings, and more importantly, rentals or prices that are far below market prices.
ライジング家賃と香港のマンションの物価上昇ロフトに古い工業や商業ビルのコンバージョン傾向を運転している
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