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Glenn Pettit, a regular Toscanini’s patron who sought out a scoop despite yesterday’s sub-zero wind chill, characterized ice cream as, “one of those things you have to get your fix...
...vocal advocates of the turnaround strategy. Kellogg had been suffering at the hands of consumers who were flocking to cheaper cereals--or finding other things to eat altogether. The company's initial reaction was to discount, which only hurt the bottom line more. At the core of Gutierrez's fix-it strategy was a shift in financial goals: instead of focusing on the number of pounds of product sold, executives started looking at performance in terms of dollars. As a result, the company put increased emphasis on more expensive items, such as Special K Red Berries and Raisin Bran Crunch...
Good intentions aside, when it comes to tsunami-affected resort areas, there’s only so much that private donations and corporate (and university) fund matching can fix...
...monetary system is based on the British pound but uses notes printed by local banks. The theft was so big that Northern Bank decided to withdraw all its cash - more than $560 million - from circulation to make most of the stolen money worthless. The political deficit looks harder to fix. "It's a serious setback, let's face it," Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Paul Murphy, told TIME. Orde didn't offer proof but, if true, his accusation means the robbery was planned at the same time the I.R.A. 's political allies in Sinn Fein were negotiating with the Irish...
...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work--and much more--in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business ... The meaning of the tasks performed by white-collar employees and executives often becomes lost in the complexities of giant corporations...