Eleven hours away
　
　Eleven hours away, on Park Avenue in New York, another meeting was under way. Butterfly was the name of a burgeoning chain of clothing stores which marketed to prosperous American women. It had combined new microfiber textiles with a brilliant young designer from Florence, Italy, into fully a six percent share of its market, and in America that was big money indeed.
　Except for one thing. Its textiles were all made in the People's Republic, at a factory just outside the great port city of Shanghai, and then cut and sewn into clothing at yet another plant in the nearby city of Yancheng.
　The chairman of Butterfly was just thirty-two, and after ten years of hustling, he figured he was about to cash in on a dream he'd had from all the way back in Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He'd spent nearly every day since graduating Pratt Institute conceiving and building up his business, and now it was his time. It was time to buy that G so that he could fly off to Paris on a whim, get that house in the hills of Tuscany, and another in Aspen, and really live in the manner he'd earned.
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　"We've got to move fast on this," the corporate counsel said. He was Jewish and smart, and had steered Butterfly through more than one minefield to bring it to the brink of ultimate success. "This could kill us."
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　"What's our exposure?" the founder and CEO asked.
　"In real terms?" the head of accounting asked. "Oh, potentially four hundred." By which he meant four hundred million dollars. "It could wipe us out in, oh, twelve weeks."
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　"Okay," he responded as coolly as the acid in his stomach allowed. "What can we do about it?"
　"We can walk on our contracts," the attorney advised.
　"Is that legal?"
　"Legal enough." By which he meant that the downside exposure of shorting the Chinese manufacturers was less onerous than having a shop full of products that no person would buy.
　"Alternatives?"
　"The Thais," Production said. "There's a place outside Bangkok that would love to take up the slack. They called us today, in fact."