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...include. The selection had to make for a punchy yet credible show-and-tell for Powell--and all without compromising sources or revealing intelligence that G.I.s might need when the shooting starts. Powell wanted not a speech but a replica of the sharp military-style briefings that helped earn him his Gulf War fame. "He taught at infantry school with slides and presentations," says a senior State official. "He knows how to do this...
...built it into a retail powerhouse. To keep costs - and prices - down, the stores are deliberately Spartan and understaffed, and feature a restricted number of staples, about 700 in total. The formula has been a smashing success: in the low-margin world of grocery retailing, where many chains earn a net return of just 1%, Aldi nets as much as 7%. The Albrecht brothers are now among the richest people in Germany. When the euro was introduced, Aldi rounded its prices downward, while many others rounded up. If it comes down to a choice between Germany's paternalistic leaders...
...addition, the jacket design is of singularly dubious merit. In an attempt to avoid portraying actual Transformers and earn the wrath of Hasbro’s legal department, _Eugenesis_ instead features a black and white photo of junked automobiles on the cover; part of a faux Penguin Classics design for the entire book (closer inspection reveals the publisher to be “Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like...
...Huston had to do more to earn her “pudding pot” in the 53rd annual recognition of “lasting and significant contribution to the world of entertainment” than just take a loop through the Square with men in drag...
...rules intended to prevent future Enron-style scandals. But under intense lobbying pressure from Wall Street as well as the accounting and legal professions, the commission has watered down or delayed some of these rules. For example, the SEC voted to allow accounting firms to continue to earn fat consulting fees from the companies they audit. And lawyers will be required to report any wrongdoing they witness to senior company executives but not to the SEC--as the SEC had initially proposed...