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...specific vulnerabilities to long-range predictions of how a company should prepare for the next season. The industry's growth is not closely tracked, but Jeff Wimmer, chairman of the Commercial Weather Services Association, a trade group, estimates that sales have quadrupled in the past decade. A few companies' client bases have exploded in that time...
...Brasserie in the basement of the Seagram building--a modernist icon--they had to contend with a real client. "We were interested in the social aspects of dining--the restaurant culture," says Diller. The restaurateur was more interested in how many tables would fit. But they seemed to find a meeting place. The restaurant--with videos above the bar broadcasting the entrance of patrons, and liquor bottles suspended behind frosted glass like fruit in Jell-O--is generating buzz. So while the duo, who have done scant building before, aren't seeking more interiors work, it's clear they will...
Increasingly, the firms are demanding equity stakes in client companies--equity that can be distributed throughout the firm. But there is one advantage to the salaries the law firms are offering: it's all in cash. Or, as Major likes to tell his junior associates, "You can't pay your mortgage in stock options...
...examine a similar case in Florida, until the state rendered the arguments moot by replacing electrocution with the more popular (and, its supporters argue, more "humane") lethal injection as its chief method of execution. Tarver's lawyers are hoping Alabama won't use the same strategy to expedite their client's execution; they maintain Tarver, who is black, was denied a jury of his peers. Eleven of the jurors who convicted him were white, and one was black...
...news has been relentless: In mid-October the board forced out CEO Martin Grass and announced that pretax profits for the past three years would be revised downward by $500 million. Then just before Thanksgiving, the chain's longtime auditor, KPMG, bolted after refusing to re-examine its client's books. Says Edward Comeau, an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette: "This was a house of cards that just collapsed...