Word: cores
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This city came to view the breadth of its industrial base as a shield from economic downturns. But no sector is immune to this recession, not even Atlanta's core tourism industry. Occupancy at Atlanta-area hotels is down 16.4%, and some are barely half-full, partly because corporate travel has declined...
...Harvard’s leaders are right in focusing our limited resources on our core missions: research and teaching. Staff layoffs, construction slowdowns, and faculty recruitment freezes will be necessary. But the magnitude of the endowment decline makes it unlikely that the budget can be balanced without more shared sacrifice...
There we go...now you're starting to see that impending wave of final papers looming for the last week in April. A little tutorial paper? Another one for your Core? Some seminar class you've been coasting through all semester? Time's up folks--you'll be lugging a bag full of Widener books for the next couple of weeks...
...city's beating heart is La Candelaria - the 400-year-old Spanish colonial core, located just off of the grand, European-style Plaza Bolivar. Not so long ago, this was a frequent battleground between FARC guerrillas and Colombian security forces - but thanks to effective security measures, the violence has given way to new hotels, cafés and galleries, including the Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, www.fce.com.co, a Modernist library and exhibition space named after the country's literary giant. (See pictures of the FARC guerrillas...
Being a Somali pirate looks like a profitable business from the outside and it is. The margins are as attractive as those in the software industry. Microsoft still makes 60% or better margins on its core Windows, business, and server operations. With the risks that the pirates take, they ought to do as well as that...