Word: barreled
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...heirs are better educated and more international in their outlook than their parents were, and they are leading their firms in new directions. The Barillas of Italy have built a pasta plant in Ames, Iowa, and recently bought a German bread company. The Ottos of Germany (Eddie Bauer, Crate & Barrel) are investing heavily in e-commerce. France's Lagardere family is becoming an international media heavyweight...
...Ottos' mammoth catalog and Internet retailing operation traces its lineage back to a postwar shoe factory in HAMBURG. Today the family also owns the majority of furniture seller Crate & Barrel...
Michael Otto, 59, has aggressively pushed to countries beyond Germany, including the U.S., where he has a majority stake in Crate & Barrel. (The family separately owns the Spiegel catalog group, which includes Spiegel, Eddie Bauer and Newport News, an online women's-clothing retailer.) Otto has also invested heavily in technology, including e-commerce, to improve efficiency, cut costs and reach out to customers. Last year the company turned a profit for the first time on its online sales, which reached $1.9 billion. Otto boasts that it's the second largest Internet retailer after Amazon.com The advantages of running...
...those who simply say good riddance: When will we learn that democracy cannot be imposed on subjects and hostages by the barrel of a gun? That, as for weapons of mass destruction, a policy of overwhelming force will never prevent nuclear proliferation? That military aggression will only continue to produce terrorism? The world will always be full of threatening enemies-in-waiting if we keep choosing to beat them into opposition. The world knows we choose to attack Saddam because he is vulnerable, while we offer North Korea diplomacy; as a result, those countries which don’t already...
...HUPD officer conducted a field interview at Harvard Student Agencies with a person suspected to have set a barrel fire in an ATM. The party was sent on their...