Li Ning also faces tough competition from Nike at the higher end of the China market.
The higher end could lead to the catastrophes commonly associated with the visions of Hollywood filmmakers.
They are a means to a higher end, not an experience in and of themselves.
On the higher end, Saks is limping, but Tiffany's cachet makes it worth 30 times.
At the higher end of the market, Waitrose also says the proportion is tiny.
In Moscow, luxury and higher end homes is the focus in the billionaire capital of the world.
As the services and higher end hardware (servers) sales become a bigger portion of revenue, margins will grow.
At the higher end of the trade, millions of cigarettes are smuggled from Andorra and Poland on lorries.
The final rule settles on the higher end of the scale, 12%, and uses a 10-year amortization schedule.
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Apple should consider extending the Fusion Drive concept to its higher end notebook computers in addition to the desktop computers.
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The home secretary pledged to raise the standard of all forces towards those at the higher end of the scale.
Prices on CustomMade are typically about the same as at higher end chains such as West Elm or Pottery Barn.
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Since our federal income tax system is progressive, the more money you make, the more tax you pay at the higher end.
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Dell is working to as much as quadruple those margins through wider distribution of higher end units like its Alienware gaming PCs.
They can all do email and the web but gaming and browsing is a much better experience on the higher end phones.
At the higher end, a few stores specialized in rice cookers and vacuum cleaners, and a few others sold headphones and MP3 players.
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They tend to be machine made and mass produced, and with the exception of some higher end specialty models, lack distinction and collectability.
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It is no secret that the Chinese market likes branded, Western goods, with purchasing in China driving higher end apparel, jewelry and auto sales.
There are nowhere near the number of native Mac business applications for higher end accounting, customer relationship management and Office as for a Windows environment.
Already South African producers are at the higher end of cash costs so what I think could happen is that it will impact the cash costs.
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First, unlike traditional pawn brokers, online pawn shops cater to a higher end consumer who is looking for larger loans than those given by traditional pawn shops.
The bottom line is that Japan has a long history of whiskey production, with a focus on higher end single malts, often aged 12 or more years.
He says this time the company is looking for a 17% drop from the December quarter, which is actually at the higher end of the seasonal range.
For Target, this presented an opportunity for the mass merchant to raise its average unit retail (AUR) prices on apparel and draw in a higher end consumer.
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Molson Coors faced relentless competition from both Budweiser and Miller at the mass-market level, and from innumerable up-and-coming foreign and premium brands at the higher end.
The first option would be to stick to the current plan, which is to use Symbian in low- and mid-end devices, with MeeGo for higher end smart phones.
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But below the radar lurks a cost-beneficial solution that more immediately meets the needs of potential employers and employees, especially at the higher end of the salary scale.
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Harmony remote sales fell off by 55 percent based on units, although a focus on higher end devices like the new Touch meant revenue declined only 24 percent.
That help, he hopes, will come from booming sales at the higher end of the car market, in which Ford's Jaguar, Aston Martin, Volvo and Land Rover brands compete.
While the company closed more stores than it opened in the quarter, they said earnings would be in the higher end of the previously announced 38 to 44 cent range.
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