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Pink Friday

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JUST as Christmas seems to come earlier each year, so it is with Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving frenzy of discounts and fisticuffs in the aisles. This year it falls on November 24th. But that didn’t stop Argos, a big catalogue retailer, from launching its own two-week Black Friday season of “amazing” prices on November 15th. Amazon, an online giant, kicks off on November 17th. Currys, an electrical-goods shop, is already discounting its vacuum cleaners. And anyone who misses Black Friday can always catch up on “Cyber …
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Oversold and over here: British retailers cool on “Black Friday”, the American sales bonanza

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Seven years after importing the tradition, retailers wish it would go away

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Oversold and over here

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The army sidelines Robert Mugabe, Africa’s great dictator

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Oversold and over here

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Pink Friday

Pink Friday

JUST as Christmas seems to come earlier each year, so it is with Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving frenzy of discounts and fisticuffs in the aisles. This year it falls on November 24th. But that didn’t stop Argos, a big catalogue retailer, from launching its own two-week Black Friday season of “amazing” prices on November 15th. Amazon, an online giant, kicks off on November 17th. Currys, an electrical-goods shop, is already discounting its vacuum cleaners. And anyone who misses Black Friday can always catch up on “Cyber …
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Oversold and over here: British retailers cool on “Black Friday”, the American sales bonanza

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The government is fixing a power shortage, revealing other problems

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Electricity in Pakistan

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America’s global influence has dwindled under Donald Trump

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Power to the people

HOVING into view behind a row of eucalyptus trees, the twin cooling towers of the Sahiwal power plant, a 1,320-megawatt facility in central Pakistan, are so large they seem other-worldly. Yet it is not only size that makes an impression. Labourers built the entire plant in a record 22 months, a year faster than is typical. “Even at home we don’t work this hard,” says the chief engineer of the Chinese power company that operates Sahiwal, …
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Volt-face: Pakistan’s government is fixing a power shortage

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Power to the people

Power to the people

HOVING into view behind a row of eucalyptus trees, the twin cooling towers of the Sahiwal power plant, a 1,320-megawatt facility in central Pakistan, are so large they seem other-worldly. Yet it is not only size that makes an impression. Labourers built the entire plant in a record 22 months, a year faster than is typical. “Even at home we don’t work this hard,” says the chief engineer of the Chinese power company that operates Sahiwal, …
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The furniture giant undertakes some home improvements

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Frictionless furnishing

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IKEA and the internet

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Do social media threaten democracy?

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You snooze, you lose

You snooze, you lose

ON A Sunday afternoon, just beyond London’s M25 ring road, shoppers participate in the ritual that is a trip to IKEA. Fuelled by a lunch of Swedish meatballs, they negotiate their way around the 400,000-square-foot maze of a store, past children playing hide and seek and couples arguing over the merits of a PAX over a HEMNES wardrobe. Hours later, they emerge, wearily pushing trolleys loaded with flat-pack furniture and far more tea lights than they had intended to buy. The joy of assembly still awaits them.
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Do social media threaten democracy?

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Frictionless furnishing

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You snooze, you lose

You snooze, you lose

ON A Sunday afternoon, just beyond London’s M25 ring road, shoppers participate in the ritual that is a trip to IKEA. Fuelled by a lunch of Swedish meatballs, they negotiate their way around the 400,000-square-foot maze of a store, past children playing hide and seek and couples arguing over the merits of a PAX over a HEMNES wardrobe. Hours later, they emerge, wearily pushing trolleys loaded with flat-pack furniture and far more tea lights than they had intended to buy. The joy of assembly still awaits them.
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Frictionless furnishing: IKEA undertakes some home improvements