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...Kodak's bind is that lowering prices will hurt its most profitable business. Kodak's piece of the U.S. market for amateur film for consumers is estimated to have brought in $3.4 billion in revenues last year at deep green profit margins of 70%. But if it doesn't do something, its market share will continue to erode. From a near monopoly position in the U.S., it now has less than 75%. Its market share in August of this year compared with the previous year dropped a staggering 5 points...
MEASURES FOR TIES THAT BIND...
From the beginning, the fuss throughout Britain over how to grieve made it clear that the palace would be in a bind. Every gesture it made--or failed to make--was scrutinized like smoke from the Vatican and found wanting. For much of the week, the royal family took a battering from the press and from the people: the proper flags were not flying in the proper places at the proper heights; the royals were not attuned to the desires of the "people" for a suitably populist funeral for the "people's princess"; the brief statement of sorrow issued shortly...
...dead. Five intruders in ski masks, two with body armor, stormed a three-bedroom bungalow in the Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed in terror. Then the invaders kicked in the door to the bedroom where Foote, a 23-year-old construction worker, and his girlfriend, Wright...
Harvard co-captain Rebe Glass witnessed first-hand Stauffer's bind...