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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...1990s?the last time a chunk of centrally located landfill came on the market?the administration sold 0.35 hectares to Citic Group for $430 million, while a consortium of developers paid $1.54 billion for the right to develop another site that now includes the IFC II skyscraper. "It was cheap, easy money," says Sun Hung Kai's Nissim, who for 20 years had worked as a senior government surveyor. "But it spun out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Lose a Harbor | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...director of U.K. sales. "One thing we've learned as a company is to act locally and to treat each market as idiosyncratically as its demands," she says. As they say in France, "Cherchez la ? pizza?" Lower Taxes, Faster Tracks Low-cost airlines are not the ultimate word in cheap transport, it turns out. EasyJet has halted its twice-daily flights from Paris to Marseilles because the discounter was losing a battle for customers with the French railways. The high-speed TGV train can now do the 660-km trip in just three hours, about the same as flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

...show moved quickly. While I had to stand on my toes to figure out where each tier of M83’s music gave way to the next, the experience consumed me. New songs blended with old, but it was all distinctly Gonzalez. From his crisp touch on a cheap keyboard to his orchestrated distorted bassline, the mastermind held control...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M83 Shoegazes Into Paradise | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...vibrator, Chloe’s attempts at self-pleasure are stalled by the entrance of her roommate, hand-in-hand with her 10-year-old mentee. The moment is a metaphor for the entire book—every moment of self-revelation is stopped short by a cheap...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yalie Chloe Pens Screed About Sex and the Safety School | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...Treasury Secretary Donald Regan supported a hands-off policy that allowed market forces to determine exchange rates. But the staggering U.S. budget deficit and resulting high interest rates pushed the dollar steadily upward. By last March, the dollar was more than 80% stronger than in 1980. Foreign goods became cheap, and American products became dear. Result: a staggering trade deficit that led to strong protectionist sentiment on Capitol Hill. Even successful multinational corporations have been hurt by shifting currency rates. Complained Paul Orrefice, president of Dow Chemical: "Nothing hurts business like the uncertainty we confront on the foreign-exchange markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fix It Before It's Broke | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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