Li-Ning is a Chinese gymnast who took home 3 Gold medals from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He is a highly respected household name in China as Michael Jordan is to Americans. After an inspirational chat with one of China's top businessmen, Li-Ning decided to start utilizing his name into a business. Beijing Li-Ning Sports Goods Co. was established. In China his company has already surpassed every sneaker company in sales, including Nike. But now he is determined to go for the gold mine (international sales). Li-Ning is starting to sponsor national sports teams all over the world such as France, Spain, Russia, and others. He also signed up some European designers for enhanced styles. He is paving the way for Chinese businesses to build global brands. Currently Li-Ning has 1,300 single-brand stores and his products are sold in 2,000 other locations. As China is getting wealthier, the country is giving foreign companies a run for their money in the markets. Beijing will be hosting the 2008 Olympics, which supposedly would make that region of the world second largest in the sneaker market. It started as a business with family members and friends in high ranks of the company and ended up making $76 million in 1997. But when Li noticed the first drop in 1999 to $60 million he decided to make some drastic business moves. He fired some close people in his life to replace them with more professional managers. He invested a lot of revenue (11%) in marketing, European designers, and in research and development. Revenue boosted to $89 million in 2001, and surpassed $120 million in the past year.
The Silver Linings Playbook approaches many different types of mental diseases through the characters in the movie. The most apparent mental disease having to do with the main character Pat, brilliantly played by Bradley Cooper. The story begins with Pat in a mental hospital, which we later learn wa...
Each lung is covered with the pleural membrane that forms a sac enclosing the lung and the lining of the chest cavity. ... Each gas diffuses through the cells lining the alveoli, and the cells lining the capillaries. ...
The stomach contains two types of glands: a) one secretes a mucus material that covers the lining and protects it from being eroded by the acids. ... For better absorption small intestines are very long, lining has many folds, lining is covered with villi ( hair-like), and villi has microvilli. ...
The ultrasound revealed that I have excessive growth on the lining of my uterus that requires me to have now not only one but two procedures. The first is a Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure to have the cancer cells burnt off my cervix, a few biopsies to see what else is going on with me and a Dilation and Curettage procedure to scrape the lining of my uterus from years of not having periods. ... Now I have to be tested in three months, six months and then one year to make sure that my lining is still with in normal range and that my cancer cells are not back. ...
The small intestine is affected because the inner lining has fingerlike projections called villa. ... Also the enzymes which are normally present in the lining cells of the intestine are diminished which impairs digestion. ... In this condition scar tissue has formed in the lining of the small intestine causing malabsorption. ...
Only once this shedding of the old lining of the uterus has finished then a new cycle can begin in the woman. ... As the graafian follicle grows it will begin to secrete more and more estrogen, whose job is to heal and repair the uterine lining after menstruation. ... When taking the pill, doctors do recommend to allow menstruation to occur, meaning the women must be stringent in the timing of when to take the pills to allow the lining of the uterus to be shed. ... This drop in progesterone also means that a hormone is no longer supporting the lining of the uterus, and therefore the complex...
Some clouds have a golden lining Hold her down! The elderly midwife snarled at the terrified student nurse, it's a double breech, get your knees on that bed and throw yourself across her chest and hold her down for God sake! Complications had set in, the baby wouldn't turn, the health centre,...
Our luminous world that we go by is only the white lining of this- (Dionys to Daphne in "The Ladybird-). ... The stories also explore Lawrence's idea of delving beyond the "white lining- of the world - the superficial exterior of being - to confront the deep, dark and irrational emotions that dwell in the hearts of his characters. ... It seems that the "white lining- - the comfortable marriage and security of their mundane lives - was not sufficient to provide the social, sexual or psychological fulfilment that these characters sought. ... Both characters are living by the "luminous world...
A colonoscopy is a procedure that enables a doctor to examine the lining of the colon for abnormalities by inserting a flexible tube that is about the thickness of your finger into the anus and advancing it slowly into the rectum and colon. ... Polyps are abnormal growths on the lining of the colon which vary in size from a tiny dot to several inches. ...
Lung cancer starts with the everlasting irritation of smoke on the lining of the bronchi, which are the two tubes forming the lower end of the trachea. The cilia, which filters air, disappear from the lining and a mucous takes its place. ... If a smoker is able to quit before these cancerous cells appear the bronchial lining can repair itself. ...