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...Utah, one in Louisiana and four more in Las Vegas. The firms belonged to a new breed of con artist, those who regularly buy and sell names for their mooch lists, at prices ranging from $10 for an untested "lead" to $200 for the name of someone who has fallen for a whole series of scams...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: Marlboro Man must have fallen off his horse when he heard the news. Philip Morris, makers of Marlboro and the veritable Zeus of Big Tobacco, has effectively admitted that smoking kills...
...jobs. Fantauzzo's workers were worried that they would be underbid. So they gave up their pay raises--and narrowly won the contract. The competition has brought a new efficiency to the operation: costs are down 29%, turn-around time on repairs has improved markedly, and customer complaints have fallen more than 90%. At the same time, the workers have more than made up for their lost raises, averaging 5% salary hikes in each of the past four years, well above the city average. Says a once skeptical Fantauzzo: "We found a way to make this a win-win situation...
...pragmatism is at least partly a response to economic necessity. Mayors are operating in an age of sharply limited resources. Federal aid to cities has fallen sharply in the past 20 years, and urban tax bases have eroded as businesses and affluent residents have fled to the suburbs. Since the mid-1970s, when New York and other big cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, mayors have had to work hard just to stay afloat: they literally can no longer afford to preside over bloated bureaucracies or coddle unions at contract time. "There's just a different set of problems...
...Nonesuch CD), in which a Bach prelude, a Chinese folk song, the chanting of monks and the words of Shakespeare are woven into a haunting musical tapestry. Since then Tan has completed his first Hollywood assignment (a hard-edged, jazz-tinged score for Denzel Washington's next movie, Fallen, due later this year) and signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Slated for release in October is Marco Polo: An Opera Within an Opera, a work whose U.S. premiere, to be given the following month by the New York City Opera, is already causing a stir in the music...