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...castle itself - and its colorful past - is still the main attraction. Request a tour with great-uncle Jack Leslie to hear tales of its illustrious guests, and see if Sammy is around for a chat. After all, it's her passion that brought the rambling Castle Leslie and its vast, landscaped grounds back to life. www.castleleslie.com
...after all, a company whose ambition is to sell a mere 1,000 cars a year. That's a goal within reach, thanks to upcoming expansions of the product line, increasing numbers of extremely rich potential buyers and fast-growing Asian markets. Last year Rolls sold 805 Phantoms, its main model, slightly more than the previous year. Revenues were also up--the company won't say by how much--largely because of the newly introduced extended-wheelbase Phantom, which has a base price of $403,000, or $63,000 more than the standard version. Garel Rhys, emeritus professor of automotive...
...designers, including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Michael Kors, exporting to the U.S. became problematic. "Our margins would have been eaten up," says Lifson. Peerless continues to make its most expensive garments at a Montreal plant that employs 2,000 because of its proximity to the company's main distribution center in St. Albans, Vt. "It costs money to have inventory sitting for weeks on a slow ship from China," says Lifson...
Canada and the U.S. are each other's top economic partners, with two-way trade valued at $625.9 billion. Normally, Canada's exports significantly outpace imports, but in September the country's trade surplus with the U.S. dwindled to $6.2 billion, according to Statistics Canada. The main reason is that the automotive sector, which includes cars, trucks and parts, posted monthly deficits from April to September...
...Chitwan's ex-guerrillas certainly appear eager to make the switch to civilian life. Neat gravel paths cross through manicured lawns; Bollywood songs blare from a thatch-roofed cabin. Yet conditions in this and the six other main Maoist cantonments are squalid - food and potable water are always in short supply, and the camp doctors grumble about a lack of medicines from the interim government. Trenches once dug for protection from helicopter gunships now serve as makeshift dormitories for many fighters and their families...