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Harvard Dining Services has introduced glass sugar dispensers and tubs of margarine and butter in many College houses as part of its ongoing environmental campaign...
Some Goliaths have stumbled by getting hooked on growth and expanding far afield from their core business. Sears took its eye off retailing in the 1980s to venture into stocks and bonds and real estate. As Sears diversified, highly focused retailers ate its bread and butter. Wal-Mart offered low prices, while Nordstrom boasted personal service. Now, with its flagship Sears stores in trouble, the company is getting back to basics by selling its Dean Witter brokerage house and most of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm. Sears is not the only respected name to get burned in the financial...
...price cutting. Workstation manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, are also enjoying strong demand for their machines. IBM is still catching up in workstations. Although it developed superb technology years ago, the company sat on it out of fear that it would cannibalize IBM's bread-and-butter mainframe business...
...teakettle bubbles on the old tin stove, Nadezhda serves a breakfast of bread and butter while considering her shopping list. "You can't plan now," she says. "Things were more affordable before." Food costs the family nearly 4,000 rubles a month, a sizable proportion of their combined monthly income of 7,500 rubles. Money must also be set aside for rent -- 70 rubles now but set to rise soon -- and for transportation, which runs about 80 rubles. Not a kopeck is left by month's end for saving. Education and health care are still supplied free by the state...
...rubles." Her monthly shopping list is short: 6.5 lbs. of meat at 125 rubles per lb.; 13 lbs. of sausage at 100 rubles per lb.; 22 lbs. of potatoes at 7 rubles per lb.; 90 eggs costing about 38 rubles for 10; and 3 lbs. of butter totaling 300 rubles. Sugar costs 40 rubles per lb. and requires a ration card allowing the purchase of 4 lbs. a month. The seasonal fruits and vegetables that supplement this diet come from the Vaktins' own country garden. Some cash is usually put aside for a few bottles of vodka...