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Competitors have tried--and failed--to break Enterprise's lock on nonairport business before. Hertz and Avis as well as Alamo retreated from expansion efforts after underestimating how difficult the local market is. While airport locations simply collect deplaning customers, local shops have to make tough decisions about where to build storefronts. National advertising spurs airport rentals, but generating neighborhood sales often requires a more personal touch, starting with national insurance companies and working all the way down to local operators like Keenan. In the late 1990s, Hertz tried to blanket the country, then pulled back when the company couldn...
Last year, Brin Wisdom, 25, and a group of seven college friends in Dallas got sick of trying to outdo one another with presents. So they decided to skip the shopping and donate to a local humane society. Each set up boxes in her workplace to collect food, toys and blankets for needy animals. Instead of their usual gift-exchange party, the friends piled $2,000 worth of donations into several cars and distributed them at the shelter. "The animals were going nuts," Wisdom recalls. "We never anticipated how emotional it would be. It ended up being the most rewarding...
...were to consider adopting such a policy, there would be large question marks on how to deal with anonymity—to provide the student with freedom for true expression without letting the system be abused. Plus there would be the matter of how and when the University should collect such letters. Further, there would be a large sampling bias to these letters, since only the students who have extreme opinions—be they positive or negative—about the professor will likely bother to write...
...University Accountability Ordinance, which is on the docket for today’s City Council meeting, would require Boston universities to collect a directory of all undergraduate and graduate students regardless of whether they live on campus. The measure is being proposed by Boston City Councillors Michael P. Ross and Jerry P. McDermott...
...Louisa Solano said earlier this week that she no longer intended to close or sell the store—one of only two all-poetry bookstores in the nation—and would fight to keep it open, “even if my dog and I have to collect...