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...Discounts - or Else! The dirty deal, according to the suit, was simple. From 2001 to 2006, Babies "R" Us told companies like Medela that they had to enforce resale-price maintenance - i.e., tell the Web retailers, who can more easily discount products since they avoid brick-and-mortar costs, to sell your products at X, or you'll cut off the supply. If they resisted, Babies "R" Us threatened to cut off the manufacturers, according to the suit, and refuse to sell their products in Babies "R" Us stores. Since Babies "R" Us sold 30% to 50% of these companies...
...outside of the organization knows the exact nature or extent of the activities inside - and few dare to ask. Soldiers with AK-47s patrol the brick wall from guard posts poised above the metal fences or elevated walkways, and closed-circuit cameras monitor the entire perimeter. A quick peep through a hole in one of the many locked gates elicited a sharp, "Go away. Go away," from a voice overhead...
...think anybody can be successful in business? Rogelio Gonzales BRICK TOWNSHIP...
...China's approach to the region is captured in a recent plan to bulldoze much of Kashgar's historic Old City - an atmospheric, millennia-old warren of mosques and elaborate mud-brick houses - and replace it with a tourist-oriented theme park version, resettling its Uighur population (who were not consulted) in "modern" housing miles away from the city...
Bulky design aside, the brick was a defining achievement for Mitchell, a rough-and-tumble manager whose interest in technology was kindled by the Erector set he had received as a child. The seminal phone wasn't a hit, but it placed Motorola at the forefront of the cell-phone revolution...