Word: flea
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...even McDonald's, once a recession superstar, is reporting negative same-store sales (down 0.6% in November), Panera's continued growth stands out. "I've never seem restaurants this competitive," says Bob Derrington, an analyst at Morgan Keegan and a 30-year veteran of the industry. "It's a flea market out there. For Panera to keep their prices and still succeed like this - it's an astounding achivement." (See the best business deals...
...summer with the arrival of the Bungalow, BungalowHotel.net. It's a 24-room hotel with Technicolor public spaces courtesy of hip husband-and-wife interior team Robert and Cortney Novogratz of Sixx Design. Rooms have names like Aloha and Kahuna and are starkly white with cowhide chairs and kitschy flea-market posters. Pool, table football, board games and cocktails are found in the Bungalow Lounge. And while there aren't many amenities in-house, guests can pay a small additional fee to use the restaurants and swimming pool of a private beach club just a short stroll away. Also...
...Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy,” Jeff Buckley once declared. “It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.” While Kathy Nilsson refrains from such gestures of grandiose pomposity, her poems are imbued with a similar ear for the power of the mundane. “The Abattoir” is a chapbook with 23 poems that frequently use the everyday to direct the reader on to more abstract concerns of love, loss, and a decaying spirituality. Written...
...from his nearly 60-page written description of the SEC's "investigative ineptitude" and "financial illiteracy." At the start of his oral statement, Markopolos injected a bit of metaphorical humor into his charge, describing the SEC as a regulatory agency that "roars like a mouse and fights like a flea." With the sober, academic look of an accountant, the former investment manager for Rampart Investment Management in Boston (he is currently an independent certified fraud examiner) detailed Madoff's phony split-strike conversion strategies and oddly "unsophisticated portfolio management." Markopolos said Madoff's "math never made sense" and his "return...
...with the city's lively atmosphere, has made picking up on the local hot spots a breeze. Chueca and Malasaa, neighborhoods that Vevers frequents and equates with a cross between New York City's SoHo and East Village, are brimming with restaurants, galleries and nightclubs. El Rastro, the flea market, is one of his regular shopping haunts, as are the surrounding areas for their vintage stores. For a dose of culture and design inspiration, Vevers heads to the Golden Triangle, an intersection of Madrid's three most famous museums?the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sof?...