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...engineered around the design, rather than the other way around. It's about the size and weight of a smooth-edged deck of cards, and its sleek blue-and-brushed-metal look really sets it apart from the pack. Call it the iPod of digital cameras, a comparison it deserves, not just for form and looks but also for its admirable ease...
...just over ?1 billion last year. Attendance is stable at about 12 million visitors a year, up from a low of 8.8 million in 1994. Occupancy at Euro Disney's six hotels is strong, with 86% of rooms filled in 2001. While analysts say the company is "settled" in comparison with years past, investors still shy from Euro Disney stock, which hovers around ?1, less than one-tenth of where it traded 10 years ago. That's due in part to wariness that lingers from the company's past performance. Debt - at about two times equity - is still a concern...
...neglected. Now the company actively cultivates relationships with these intermediaries, and Airtours, Britain's biggest tour operator, will manage one of the three new hotels that Disney is building. A continuing challenge for Euro Disney is to develop the German market, which accounts for only 8% of visitors. (By comparison, 40% come from France, 18% from the Benelux countries and 15% from Britain...
...most effective: due in large part to the council’s pressure on Harvard University Dining Services not to sign an exclusive contract with PepsiCo, that company pulled out of Burma in 1996— a major victory in the free Burma movement. I know this pales in comparison to, say, providing concerts on-campus, but some of us reactionaries still believe that the private sector, rather than government, should be responsible for entertainment...
Additionally, Hasan compares the patriotism of Americans and Israelis to that of the Nazis and the Rwandans. At first I thought that this was a joke, but then he qualified the comparison by claiming that “it is unlikely that either Israel or America will ever commit crimes on this level of inhumanity.” It’s one thing to suggest that democracies thrive on their citizens’ right to question and challenge authority. It’s another to infer that strong patriotism could potentially lead to the support of mass murder. Last...