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...Pound for pound they’re a lot bigger than our team,” co-captain John Henry Flood said. “We’re more athletic, we’re one of the fastest Division I teams in the country...the big thing we need to overcome is first-game jitters...
...What attracted Charterhouse and its rivals was Saga's market strength in Britain's fastest-growing consumer demographic: the over-50 set. And its bet is paying off. Saga's pretax earnings in its last fiscal year were up 20% to about $259 million on revenues of $1.3 billion. Last autumn, Saga refinanced nearly $2 billion of debt at better terms, and ahead of schedule, allowing it to save $59 million a year in interest payments. Moreover, Saga's travel service recently added a third cruise ship to its fleet, and Saga Magazine now has more than 600,000 subscribers...
...make sure every citizen counts? Count them. Literally. Yet some countries don't collect ethnic data in their census and those that do are often behind the curve. Britain introduced a mixed-race category to its census in 2001, only to discover that it was already the country's fastest-growing ethnic minority group. It's illegal to collect data on ethnicity or religion in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Spain, mainly on the grounds that identifying people by their race or faith is, in itself, a form of discrimination. But a move to make all people equal risks ignoring...
...believe the official statistics, these should be feel-good times in Western Europe. The economy is growing at its fastest pace since 2000, while inflation and interest rates remain low by historic standards and unemployment almost everywhere is falling. Try telling that to Marie Pereira. She sells Baccarat crystal in the fancy Bon Marché department store in Paris, and she's feeling anything but well off at the moment. "Basic things like food shopping are twice or even three times as expensive as before," she complains. "People have much less money at the moment, so they have...
...Perhaps, though, love is just too broad a term to provide true search engine satisfaction. Or perhaps it's not really love we want after all. How else to explain one of the fastest rising search terms this season, a single word that surged 42% in the two weeks leading up to Valentine's Day. That's right: Viagra...