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...stores--188 will be closed this year--but it has given Gateway a chance to reinvent itself in consumer electronics. Analysts expect prices to fall even further this year, driving up sales. According to Lee Simonson, senior vice president for consumer electronics at Best Buy, $2,999 was the "breakthrough price...
...fight back [from a deficit], we both felt like it was a breakthrough,” Elias said...
...International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from his campaign against South Korea's free press.) Then there was the acclaimed Kim Dae Jung-Kim Jong Il summit in Pyongyang in June 2000?the supposedly historic "peace breakthrough" that later turned out to have been purchased furtively and illegally, with a price tag of at least $100 million, through the transfer of South Korean taxpayer money to the Dear Leader's bank accounts...
...overly perturbed by Monti's announcement, it has a whopping $50 bill-ion in cash, and it earns an average of $1 billion before tax every month. But the crackdown comes at a difficult time for the firm. Some argue that it has not had a major commercial product breakthrough in years, despite extensive R and D investments. It has yet to crack the coveted goal of getting a version of Windows into Europe's hundreds of millions of mobile phones. And at a time when the company is looking to break into new markets and catch up with...
...personal trials that may have led to her murder of seven men. The film has garnered as much attention for star Charlize Theron’s monstrous makeover into the less-than-comely prostitute murderess as it did for the actual performance. Theron’s performance is breakthrough work, painstakingly recreating the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship between...