Port Noir; 011-41-22-707-05-00-20. 2. Patek PhandsomeIf this handsome five-story shrine to haute horology is any indication, the world's most respected watchmaker is also the most stylish.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — If the super-G on the exceedingly bumpy, shady and highly demanding Kandahar piste was any indication, the world's elite speed skiers are surely in for an even more rigorous test Saturday when the downhill is contested at the world ski championships.
It's a matter of positioning: Symposium banners bear the words "the Creative Capital of the World," but, if last month's summit between President Obama and Nordic leaders is any indication, the world has taken notice.
Re "Security Council Votes, 15-0, for Tough Iraq Resolution; Bush Calls It a 'Final Test' " (front page, Nov. 9): From all indications, the world has learned that the leadership of the United States is now in the hands of a man who displays no uncertainty about how to act in taking on the role of ridding the world of terrorism.
Why does a leader of a country take such a radical position on issues that, by all indications, the world community would not accept?
This is welcome news and an indication that the world is learning from its mistakes.
The results will give markets a clearer indication whether the world's largest economy is on a recovery path, or bound towards a double-dip recession.
Tory MPs have rounded on the comments as a "frightening" indication of the world view of the man who looks set to win the Labour leadership contest – but some have argued his comments have been taken out of context.
Some indication of the world picture may be gained from the drainage census in the United States of 1959, which showed that about 92,000,000 acres (37,200,000 hectares) were drained through organized projects, about 10 percent of the land in agriculture.
One indication that the world had truly recovered from the financial crisis would be a rise in 10-year Treasury yields to 4 percent, he said, but he did not see that prospect as imminent.
"This is an indication that the world has not been cooling since 1998," said Dr Vicky Pope of the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, referring to claims by climate change sceptics that since 1998, the hottest year of all, the trend has changed from warming to cooling.
