Despite its makeshift location, Shanghai Tang is not poverty-stricken -- it has seven other outposts in Hong Kong, not to mention plenty of business savvy and a powerful owner (the Richemont Group, a Swiss company that also controls other high-end brands like Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Piaget and Montblanc).

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Illegal outposts are usually much smaller and not so well established.

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But few supermarkets are lobbying for a permanent change in the regulations, not least because they now have thousands of smaller outposts around the country.

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And again, you know, because you're talking about social networks and black folks being in various outposts around the country, I mean, the information simply was not going to be reproduced the way that we think about information being reproduced now.

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Since these companies are outposts of American or British firms and adhere to their standards, they must master not only unfamiliar terms but also the mind-set behind them.

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An official in Israel's Justice Ministry who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter said the case of Beit El differed from other illegal settler outposts because it was home to dozens of families that would lose their homes if the demolition went ahead.

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