Word: bread
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...revenue from its huge audience. Last November an agent provocateur emerged in Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice president, whose leaked memo became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. He argued passionately that Yahoo! was wasting its talent by distributing its resources like peanut butter on a widening slice of bread. "The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular," Garlinghouse wrote. "I hate peanut butter. We all should." He criticized the company's services for competing with one another and recommended an overhaul of the ungainly corporate structure...
...selling communist and Nazi paraphernalia. Fewer sightseers meander into the Sveta Nedelya Church, where Sofians gather for incense-imbued Bulgarian Orthodox services in a mural-covered sanctuary. It was there that a church employee approached my camera-toting travel companion, asking to be photographed. We wound up sharing warm bread in a side office, even though we didn't share a language...
That, though, is starting to change. Bulgaria doesn't move to the euro until 2010, but the country is already seeing the effects of integration with the European economy. The Sofia Echo, an English-language weekly, reports that in the last few months of 2006, the price of bread went up more than 10% and is expected to increase another 20% to 50% this year. The evolving landscape is perhaps nowhere better observed than at the gleaming new glass-wrapped Mall of Sofia, where locals sip $2.60 caramel macchiatos, browse stores such as Lacoste and Hugo Boss and take...
...answer came seconds later. A huge explosion blew a hole in a bakery, sending body parts and bread showering onto the pavement outside. Three Israelis were killed and two others wounded by the blast. Responsibility for the terror attack was immediately claimed by three different Palestinian militant groups, one of them - Islamic Jihad - identifying the bomber as Mohammed Siksik, 21, from Gaza...
...wardrobe basics that used to be the Gap's bread and butter, consumers now expect higher quality at a bargain price. Banana Republic has had some success filling that niche, promoting classically styled work clothes that can be brightened up for an evening out. Analysts say that brand is the one hot spot in Gap's portfolio, with sales rising 2% last year. "You don't want to waste Banana's profits fixing other parts of the company," says Bruce Greenwald, an economics professor at Columbia Business School...