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Elizabeth Dole gets ready for every event as if she's having tea with the Queen. At a rally in a tobacco warehouse so humid we all feel like chain smokers, Dole appears in a bubble-gum pink suit with beige pumps and stockings. If someone were to, say, spill barbecue on her, a mint green spare is hanging in her Buick sedan...
Despite all the stores they displaced, the big boxes have also indirectly helped such shops as Beverly's Pet Center thrive. Outlays of billions of dollars for advertising and marketing have bolstered not only the chain brands but also demand for everything from gourmet coffee to home-improvement projects...
...recording technology plus new deals with musicians' unions have enabled several major ensembles to launch their own labels. The biggest success story so far is the LSO Live budget label. "All their titles get into our Top 20 classical-sales chart," says Tony Shaw, U.K. classical manager for retail chain HMV. "Most get into the Top 10. Recently, Shostakovich's 11th Symphony got to No. 3, beating [popular tenors] Bocelli and Russell Watson." LSO Live is the brainchild of the orchestra's managing director, Clive Gillinson. Before the label launched in 2000, he had been in negotiations with the Musicians...
...don’t want to anger the new dean into not giving us space,” she says. “But we also want the space to the point that we’d consider hunger strikes, chain ourselves to the building, picket...
...bargaining is dead, at least in America. Yet one beloved area bagel chain promises that services are negotiable. Now no one knows the allure of a catchy, meaningless rhyme more than the FM staff, but could this truly be a sham? Can an honest man finagle nothing these days? FM investigates...