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...industry. The lure--a juicy $600 billion market--is exceeded only by its peril--no other market is as cutthroat or has devoured so many players so relentlessly. Some, like J Sainsbury, bailed out after years of fruitless effort; others, like the French hypermarket chain Carrefour, lasted a nanosecond. Ahold, a Dutch company that owns the chain Stop & Shop, was bruised by an accounting scandal. Delhaize, the Belgian owner of Food Lion, holds on grimly as Wal-Mart makes chopped meat of the industry's profit margins...
...inter-human communication may have evolved in a similar way, according to the press release. Wrangham expressed enthusiasm about his work with Wobber. She “has a very strong sense of what makes a good experiment,” he said. “When she got ahold of an idea from contact with a professor or grad student she would then go on and do her studies very much on her own initiative.” Wobber, who is studying chimpanzees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was not available for comment at press time, according...
...snow began to fall heavily, blanketing the field. The snow not only obscured Harvard’s view, but also made it difficult to keep control of the ball. “People were slipping everywhere,” Craig said. “It was difficult to get ahold of the ball with all the snow and ice.” Because of the extreme weather conditions, the Crimson was forced to play a much more calculated and controlled game than it is used to. Harvard was unable to make the long passes up the field that...
...about six months of my senior year, they were kind of playing ‘crime and punishment’ with me, trying to figure out how on Earth I got ahold of all of these addresses, which was just an incredibly top secret document, like the codes that NORAD has to launch nuclear weapons,” Borowitz says. “But they never cracked me. I was sort of like Deep Throat. I just stuck to my guns...
Parents seeking to stay on top of what's happening in class don't have to wait for the report card to arrive. "Now it's so easy for the parents through the Internet to get ahold of us, and they expect an immediate response," notes Michael Schaffer, a classroom veteran who teaches AP courses at Central Academy in Des Moines, Iowa. "This e-mail--'How's my kid doing?'--could fill my day. That's hyperbole. But it's a two-edged sword here, and unfortunately it's cutting to the other side, and parents are making demands...