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Ever notice that in almost all old time photos the people photographed are always dressed immaculately? Part of it had to do with the fact that having your photograph taken was such a rare event that you wanted to look your best when you did. More, however,...
Tags: clothing, dress, culture, photographs, Far and Away, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gangs of New York, Brad Pitt, Legends of the Fall, decline, western, civilization
OPEC indicates for huge Decline in Oil Prices in comming weeks, because of continue recession in the world & as huge reserves of oil-based fuels continue to pile up and the space to store them runs out.
Teachers of math and science in Malaysia will have to teach in the local language - Bahasa Malaysia - from 2012 as the government has decided to ban English in the two subjects, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. He said at a press conference...
Tags: malaysia, english, decline, ban, language, ability, teaching, malay
An acquaintance of mine who has been in Perth for the last four years has had reason to visit this country again last week for the first time. We who live here are probably unaware of what happens; change is insidious and gradual;...
Tags: politics, decline, south africa, students, unions
As far as I remember, Robben Island, that infamous jail of political prisoners, was first opened to the public in 1994. No-one would ever have heard of this place had it not been for the fact that Nelson Mandela was incarcerated...
Tags: robben island, south africa, decline
Chinese chip makers are struggling in the economic downturn,which has largely affected the electronics export in the past year. Take Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacture International Corp (SMIC) as an example. The China's biggest chip maker...
Tags: chips, semiconductor, slump, decline
Electronic Materials Inc. said Thursday it expects to report a decline in sales for the first quarter ended March 31...As a result of lower pricing and additional underutilization charges, the company said, it now expects gross margin for the quarter...
Tags: semiconductor, decline, chips
Asian shares were mixed Friday with Tokyo shrugging off further gloomy Japanese economic data while the weak performance of Wall Street and fears over the global economy weighed on other regional markets. Japan's Nikkei-225 ended 1.48 percent higher despite...
Tags: asian markets, market, shares, asian market, decline, stock market
Japanese exports fell by a larger-than-expected 35% in December, the biggest fall on record, stoking concerns that firms could accelerate layoffs and idle production as the global recession deepens. Exports totaled 4.833 trillion yen ($54.15 billion),...
Tags: export, japan, economy, recession, stock, year, decline, global, yen, will
Japan’s economy is “worsening rapidly” amid plunging industrial production, falling exports and worries about looming large-scale lay-offs, the government declared on Tuesday in the latest in a series of increasingly gloomy assessments. The downbeat assessment...
Tags: economy, economic, japan, export, cut, slowdown, year, decline, global, Bank of Japan