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...anxieties of Li and his thick-bankbooked brethren are spawning a lucrative boom in China's private-security business. The body-guarding profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge of ill-repute. Because of this political legacy, the industry still occupies a legal gray area, but bodyguards are now in such demand that the top earners can make $5,000 a month. "As China's economy develops, safety problems will increase, and that means businesses like ours will continue...
...demand. If a showing for a film sells out, add a copy on a second screen; if a film bombs, replace it with anything starring Julia Roberts. Projector makers and server manufacturers that have been selling equipment in ones and twos for almost a decade look for sales to boom. Belgium's Barco is one of three companies - along with Christie and Japan's NEC - that almost everyone goes to for digital projection. It has an 80% share of the market in Europe and makes about half of the world's digital cinema systems. But that accounts for just...
...Sharon Stone to its location in the hills north of San Diego. But while the spa's spare, utilitarian interiors may have been the height of fashion in the 1980s, they did not age well - especially in the face of the competition that emerged with the spa-building boom of the last few years. Enter investors John and Terri Havens. The New Orleans couple bought Cal-a-Vie in 2001 and embarked on a mission, Terri Havens says, "to bring top-of-the-line luxury to Cal-a-Vie." The result was an ambitious renovation program that has only just...
...Sharon Stone to its location in the hills north of San Diego. But while the spa's spare, utilitarian interiors may have been the height of fashion in the 1980s, they did not age well-especially in the face of the competition that emerged with the spa-building boom of the last few years. Enter investors John and Terri Havens. The New Orleans couple bought Cal-a-Vie in 2001 and embarked on a mission, Terri Havens says, "to bring top-of-the-line luxury...
...when the number of applications to business school are decreasing. The number of applications to HBS has dropped steadily from 10,382 applications for the class of 2004 to 6,552 applications for the class of 2007. Aisner attributed the decrease in applications to the fallout from the internet boom. “The number of applications received for 2004 was probably an aberration, it was the pent up demand after the internet boom so that is probably too high a watermark,” said Aisner. “Now we are seeing more of a return to normalcy...