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Merchandising matters. O.K., so we've known that for a while. But ever since the over-commercialized Atlanta Games in 1996, host cities have made a big deal of being all about the sports while treating merchandising like a necessary evil. Vancouver proved it doesn't have to be that way. The enormous success of the red mittens - sales of the $10 gloves generated more than $12 million for Canadian sports - "helped us clarify our thinking around what could become the iconic collector's item of the Games," says Manning-Cooper. 2012 umbrella, anyone...
From a historical perspective this makes a great deal of sense. Consider that the top marginal rate peaked at 94% in the final years of World War II. It remained above 90% for most of the 1950s, and held steady at 70% during the 1970s. Republican Ronald Reagan emerged as the great tax buster, shaving the top bracket to a mere 28%. (During his presidency the rate in the bottom bracket increased by a point...
...also helps explain why sterling has stabilized since the steep fall on Monday. The pound actually rose slightly against the dollar on Wednesday amid reports the Prudential deal was floundering and the release of data showing a rise in U.K. consumer confidence last month...
...semi-legal drugs. Marijuana, for example, is decriminalized in Massachusetts, but if you get caught smoking on campus, you’ll still have to deal with the Ad Board (conversely, you could just transfer to MIT, which has turned a blind eye to dorm room LSD production in the past...
...going to see a lot of things we haven’t seen before. We just cannot get nervous and have to play like we play every other match. We can’t let the pressure get to us and we’re going to have to deal with the adversity if we get down early in the beginning...