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Blockbuster caused a flutter when it announced a billion-dollar bid last month to buy rival Hollywood Entertainment, and rental chain Movie Gallery Inc. followed up with a bid of its own. What was puzzling, however, was the rationale that inspired Blockbuster's proposal. Online subscription services like Netflix, along with DVD sales and video-on-demand services, have eaten into the company's income. Its rental revenues have declined each quarter this year compared with last. Blockbuster has responded by investing in video-game rentals and launching its own online subscription service. It's "surprising that Blockbuster would choose...
...many people, lifestyle changes aren't enough. In such cases, drugs are the answer. There are five classes of blood-pressure medication, each of which works on a different link in the hypertension chain. Diuretics, which cause the body to excrete water and lower the load in the vessels, are the workhorse drugs with the longest history and the most direct effect. Diuretics work best in older patients, since younger metabolisms sense the change in fluid volume and react by activating the renin-angiotensin system to constrict vessels and boost pressure, negating the effects of the drugs...
...those who will help decide the fate of Begum and many like her next year--has a color-coded map of the world, with 36 countries highlighted. These are places visited each year by Joshi, who buys the merchandise that the Children's Place, a North American chain of affordable-clothing stores, sells in America...
Meanwhile, the Salvation Army is still reeling from Target Corp.'s decision earlier this year to ban the group, ending the exemption it had given the charity from the chain's no-solicitation policy (similar to that of many retail chains). "It opens the door to any other groups that wish to solicit our guests," said a Target official. In 2003 bell ringers received $8.8 million from Target shoppers--nearly a tenth of the Salvation Army's total $93.8 million holiday haul. Several Christian groups, including Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, have protested...
This month Bliss Spa celebrates its partnership with the W Hotel chain with a new location, bliss49, in New York City's W Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue (three more spas will open in 2005 in W Hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago). The New York spa, which features a manicure-pedicure lounge, a shaving station, and women's and men's locker rooms with saunas and aromatherapy-infused steam rooms, will also offer unique treatments like Bliss's Carrot & Sesame Body Buff and Triple Oxygen facial. But the biggest bonus is that hotel guests will...