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...“We used to work on an eight-lane highway,” says Randy Chen, vice-chair at Wan Hai Lines, a Taiwanese shipping company, of global logistics operations, “[then] we shrank the highway by half....
...Hong Kong publisher Alan To has been combing through his books to remove any titles that might get him into trouble....
...“It seems like external pressure is turning us into a self-driven growth engine,” Mr Wan said....
...“This is certainly an abuse of police power in every sense of the word,” said Alan Leong, head of the Civic party, adding that Mr Tsang was handcuffed at the time....
...Additional reporting by Wan Li...
...Additional reporting by Julie Zhu and Wan Li...
...Additional reporting by Wan Li in Beijing...
...Creation founder Alan McGee, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Noel Gallagher of Oasis are just a few of the “misfits, sociopaths and drug addicts”, as the film puts it, who reminisce about the days of...
...But, quite reasonably, they don’t wan to do it themselves; they would rather shrink their books....
...Other potential contenders include Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Jon Cruddas, Harriet Harman, Andy Burnham and Alan Johnson....
...So it is a pleasure to see his new work more fully in a solo show at London’s Alan Cristea Gallery....
...Richard Alan Holmes’ Despard Murgatroyd seems battle-weary, David Wannen’s Roderic wan. Incessantly arch attitudes and platitudes threaten to cloy. Mugging tends to be excessive....
...Alan White, chief executive, said about two-thirds of N Brown’s sales were on credit....
...But in 2008 the internet has domesticated the forbidden, making Equus seem rather wan....
...Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is in the clear, if alibis published recently in this newspaper hold water....
...Together with a sister plant in nearby Chai Wan, or Firewood Bay, Li employed 7,000 workers and his factories ran three eight-hour shifts daily. It was, in part, a cottage industry....
...Alan Greenspan, Fed chairman, famously went on the road as a jazz clarinettist, before turning his hand to economics....
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