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...would seem like the last thing the league needs. But it turns out the Patriots are the ideal villains. The drama inherent in their chase for an unblemished record and the emotions the team engenders make these imperfect Pats perfect for the NFL--and especially for the league's bottom line...
...wire is something that connects. All The Wire's characters face the same forces in a bottom-line, low-margin society, whether they work for a city department, a corporation or a drug cartel. A pusher, a homicide cop, a teacher, a union steward: they're all, in the world of The Wire, middlemen getting squeezed for every drop of value by the systems they work for. "Every day, they matter less as individuals," says Simon...
...with many other media organizations--and like The Wire's budget-strapped cops--they're paying attention mainly to the bottom line. Out-of-town owners are demanding higher profits, bureaus are closing, layoffs are draining the institutional memory, and the staff barely has the resources to chase fires, much less do investigative work. One top editor repeatedly asks his troops, in impeccable corporatese, to "do more with less...
Bijapurkar roughly divides Indian consumers into four categories by their income and consumption patterns - 60 million people with high purchasing power, 100 million well on the road to that level of consumption, 100 to 150 million who have just started that journey, and the rest who are at the "bottom of the pyramid" or BOP, in Bijapurkar's shorthand. However, though its members earn less than a dollar a day, the BOP also forms a significant consumer base, says Bijapurkar, and businesses like microfinance have successfully tapped this segment. Indeed, Bijapurkar says, the vast majority of Indian consumers may have...
...After the break, the Crimson couldn’t find the bottom of the net. Harvard missed seven of its first 10 shots to begin the second half, with only a pair of threes from Niki Finelli buoying the Crimson...