And outside of its trendy Blue Moon brand, Molson Coors had also largely missed out on the one promising growth outlet for the North American market: upscale premium microbrews.

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But in the end, it decided that this was a market that it could not ignore and licensed its first outlet in Beijing in June 1993.

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The situation would quickly worsen if the incentive for poaching increased by the appearance of an outlet for ivory more lucrative than the present black market.

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Lindsay, who said she needs a job because she has home-improvement debt and can't sell her house in this slumped market, said she is able to keep hunting for jobs partly because of her creative outlet online.

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