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...that factory owners who negotiated contracts with foreign companies earlier in the year when the price of oil was lower "settled on an export price, and now they can't make money so they're just going bust." Adds Zheng Shihua, who runs a trading house out of a storefront that doubles as his family home: "I never dreamed the prices would get so high. I'm scared to buy raw materials now, because I don't know when the price will fall. It's like playing the stock market...
...IMAM ALI SHRINE, WE HAD to walk through the battlefield. Snipers' bullets buzzed past our heads and lodged in the wall, sending a fine dust of pulverized plaster over us as I, my interpreter Hussam and three Mahdi fighters on the street tumbled into an open storefront to escape the barrage. The militiamen stood between us and the door to shield us from the unrelenting fire. They were young, polite and dedicated to their cause. As they saw it, they were protecting their holiest site from infidel Americans. But the Mahdi fighters were perfectly willing to safeguard...
...Clyde Fans" tells the wistful history of two brothers and their family electrical fan business. The inspiration came from an actual "Clyde Fans" office in Toronto. "It was a very old storefront," Seth said. "I used to look into window when I walked by because I'm very attracted to this sort of thing. In the dim light of the office you could see on the back wall two photographs of two men, which were probably the owners. I just assumed they were brothers. Over the next couple of years while working on projects I put together a story...
...Williams and DiGiovanni said that the prominent storefront is wasted on another large bank branch opening in the square. Fleet, Cambridge Savings Bank and Cambridge Trust already have large branches open on the corner of JFK St. and Mass...
...similar success with Seth's just-released Clyde Fans Book One. The first of a planned two-part series, Clyde Fans tells the wistful history of two brothers and their family electrical-fan business. Seth, n? Gregory Gallant, 41, got the idea for the book from an old storefront office of the same name in Toronto. "I used to look into the window when I walked by," Seth says, "and in the dim light you could see on the back wall photographs of two men who were probably the owners. Over the next couple of years I put together...