Word: accountants
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...this despite my admiration for Alex Gibney's very thorough documentary account of the writer's disheveled life and career, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Aside from a first wife who became totally fed up with Thompson, it collects a lot of tolerant - if often head-shaking - comments on the good doctor's rattling passage through the history of recent American life...
...hardly ever crashes. It's fast. You'll see performance differences on sites like Gmail. It's secure. Pop-up alerts tell you when you're visiting sites suspected of pushing virus-laden software or "phishing" scams--pretending to be, say, your bank, in an attempt to get account information. And with more than 5,000 add-ons to choose from, you can change everything about Firefox from the way it looks to how it behaves. Not a bad deal for free...
...store closings are a significant slice of Starbucks's operations, representing 8% of company-owned stores in the U.S. and 7% of the firm's global workforce. They account for some 19% of company-owned stores built since October 2005. But more than a third of the Starbucks in the U.S. are run by licensees - you'll find them in airports and on the turnpike - and so far there are no plans to shutter any of those. Nor are there plans to close any international stores, which are a small part of the company's overall profits but its biggest...
...European Commission. Lower revenues mean lower spending, and the result is bleakly evident in rankings of the world's best universities. In the highly regarded table published annually by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, European institutions fill just four of the top 25 places; wealthy North American institutions account for almost all the rest...
...account for this discrepancy, monthly unit changes were adjusted upward by one-sixth of a percent for each month in the graph above, and two percent was added to the overall growth in the endowment units. (This two percent differential may reflect deductions for management fees or levies on the endowment like the 0.5 percent tax for development of the new Allston campus. A Harvard spokesman was not immediately available for comment on this difference as well as the endowment's returns for this fiscal year...