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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (43609)	10/16/2005 10:08:31 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 110194

UK: High street 'heading for a Christmas Armageddon' By Harry Wallop (Filed: 17/10/2005) Retailers are facing an "Armageddon" this Christmas, with high street sales at their weakest for two decades, according to one of the industry's most senior analysts. Verdict Research, headed by Richard Hyman, will tomorrow forecast that retail sales in value terms will rise by just 2.1pc in the last three months of 2005, compared with 3.3pc growth a year earlier. The sluggish growth figures follow a year of weak sales and rising costs. "It's going to be worse than last year and it's worse by a lot," said Mr Hyman. <MORE> telegraph.co.uk

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (43609)	10/16/2005 11:28:23 PM
From: dsv	Respond to of 110194

If we can digress for a moment to sport, which is a very different area, the Chinese efforts are pretty amazing. The technique that they have developed in several sports is the best. Now that may sound trite, except sports like gymnastics, diving are very technical. They have thought out and advanced technique in those sports They keep showing the best technique in the world, and make everyone else look like hackers. This requires a lot of sophistication...now apply this to any other field and it will eventually be very tough competition.

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (43609)	10/17/2005 1:28:40 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

<<cell phone>> ... now on geewhizwhoa dual sim and pda e-mail <<learning>> Message 21798723 ... and now John Snow concludes that the financial reforms in China are genuine and wants US banks to buy more China bank shares ... the two financial systems can go down the gurgler together :0) Greensputin, in Beijing, just gave an impromtu short course on 19 years of money printing ;0) Rumsfeld, arriving in Beijing in a few hours, will give a short course in pre-emptive regime change, no doubt, and how not to fight a war in the sands of Mesopotamia, presumably. He supposed will visit some big rocket facility. Perhaps he will run into a N.Korean by accident :0) The world is a funny little place. Chugs, J