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...profit,” Frumin says. “Most choose not to. They charge a minimal amount.” Generally, a group will charge a base price for admission, which Frumin says fluctuates constantly depending on the venue, the night and the event, and sell well in excess of the break even point, which generally hovers around 100 to 200 people. But any surplus is generally plowed back into the party itself for amenities like food and drinks, Frumin says. He describes losing money from his parties as “very difficult...
...Gemplus (up 88%). Overall, tech is once again the S&P 500's best-performing segment, rising 59% this year, even though that segment has experienced a 5% decline in the previous 12 months of earnings. This remains an industry dogged by sluggish corporate spending and huge amounts of excess capacity. So it's hard to comprehend why the stock market is valuing a dollar of tech earnings three times as highly as a dollar of earnings from nontech...
What Carlson and his boosters do not realize is that the greatest social change in Cambridge over the last 20 years is a result of their own work. The city of Cambridge currently has the largest number of houses valued in excess of a million dollars of any city in the U.S. It is the kind of controls on density and development—local Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) politics—pushed by Carlson and his ilk that may be the main offender in pushing housing prices to extraordinary levels. Despite Carlson’s cries against...
Melton said the stem cell lines were isolated from excess embryos donated by fertility clinics with the consent of donors in a process that took about two years...
...agree strongly that the central and urgent issue is the safety and health consequences of excess drinking. Drunkenness is closely associated with sexual assault and violence, and inebriated students can be one drink away from alcohol poisoning, a coma or even death...