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In recent years, when the weather begins to heat up, the job market has gone cold. This so-called “spring swoon” has time and again dashed many hopes for a more sustained and vigorous economic recovery.
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Airports can tell you much about the consumer development of a country. Having just landed in Shanghai on route to Chengdu, a second-tier city in the Southwest, where TIME’s sister publication is holding its Global Forum, I was struck by two things.
First, the amount of smaller Western niche brands that now occupy airport retail …
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In the blogosphere, the question of whether or not adults …
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