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GOLDIE LOOKIN' CHAIN...
...NASN's audience. "American sports are exporting to Europe much better than American politics," Schwartz notes. Perhaps, but what's Icelandic for "infield fly rule"? - By Bruce Crumley All In The Famille France's powerful Moulin family offered to buy a majority stake in the century-old retail chain Galeries Lafayette. The family, which was one of the firm's founders and owns 32%, would pay about €2.12 billion to buy out other shareholders...
...million Total compensation John Antioco, CEO of the Blockbuster video-rental chain, received...
Sometimes, living by your principles is a difficult thing to do. Last month Pax World Funds, a socially responsible investing outfit, sold 375,000 shares of Starbucks, worth some $23.4 million, because the java chain started selling coffee liqueur with spirits firm Jim Beam--and Pax won't invest in companies that make liquor. "We were very reluctant to do this," says Anita Green, Pax's vice president for social research. "There's a lot we like about this company." In fact, Starbucks has been lauded--by Pax and others--for its progressive environmental policies, its commitment to sell Fair...
...bombarded with slickly packaged products promising to make you look radiant, smell good and feel gorgeous. Yet almost hidden among those glamorous potions is a plain medicinal box--labeled with the unsexy pitch INTENSIVE CONCENTRATE FOR EXISTING STRETCH MARKS (STRIAE DISTENSAE)--that just happens to be one of the chain's Top 10--selling items. No, stretch marks haven't suddenly become big business. But thanks in part to aggressive ads that proclaim it "Better than Botox?," the scientific-sounding StriVectin-SD has become the hottest thing in the war on wrinkles--a booming industry that's generating billions...