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Taking what he calls "the McRub approach," the hyperkinetic Zanker merged the retail concept with the massage-notions business to create a chain that sells fast, convenient--and fully clothed--massages and massage gadgets. Last February Zanker raised $6.2 million in a public offering. Today there are 15 branches in New York City, Chicago and Denver. Forty more branches are set to open mainly through franchises in eight new markets. Says he: "I see it as the Starbucks of the year 2000. We could put one every two to three blocks." Now you know why he's an entrepreneur...
...sure to check out Harvard's Technology Product Center (TPC) before going to a chain store. The TPC now features a new "closeout" area which sells floor demo models, returned items and scratch-and-dents at a fraction of their original cost...
...real gadget guru, you already know about the Sharper Image chain of stores. Save time on the T by visiting them on-line at sharper-image.com and buy gifts from the comfort of your bedroom...
...their jobs. They faked nothing. They committed no fraud, no trespass or breach of duty," ABC attorney Bill Jeffress told jurors in opening the trial of "Prime Time Live" producers Lynn Dale and Susan Burnette, whose November 1992 story on improper food handling at Food Lion supermarkets cost the chain billions. Attorneys question which jobs the defendants were doing: television news producers or supermarket employees. Food Lion is suing Dale, Burnette and ABC for $2.5 billion over a story that portrayed Food Barn stores in North and South Carolina selling contaminated meat in unsanitary conditions. The company claims the network...
This unlikely partnership between the modern American minimalist and the chain-smoking Gallic dandy has resulted in 1993's Orphee, 1994's La Belle et la Bete and now Les Enfants Terribles, each based on a film of the same name by Cocteau. Distinguished not only by Glass's familiar, artful brand of minimalist music but also by Cocteau's impish, erotic sensibility, the operas are nevertheless quite different from one another. Orphee was a conventional opera that followed the script of the original film. With La Belle, Glass went a step further, stripping the film of its sound track...