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...flat screens hanging above the bar. And like the $9 movie ticket, the $4.25 premium draft has ceased to outrage many locals. Glasses of wine range from $6 (a nice pinot grigio) to $11, while bottles stick pretty close to the “glass times four” formula and span from $22 to $58. For those who have heard rumors of an $8 glass of beer, it does in fact exist and resides at Cambridge, 1 in the form of Melbourne Strawberry Ale. I decided to forego this brush with Puffy-like alcohol indulgence fearing that, like...
...largest company on this year's FORTUNE 500 list?emphasizes customer service to bring in the crowds while keeping prices in check with high-tech inventory management?and by using its clout to cow suppliers. Charles Holley, senior vice president for Wal-Mart International, calls his company's formula for wringing profits out of low-margin merchandise "the productivity loop...
...response, HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, Dean of the J.D. Program Todd Rakoff and Dean of Students Suzanne Richardson sent an e-mail to faculty and students condemning the acts, and promising an investigation. Such measures are the typical University response to hate speech and resort to the formula of “condemn and conference.” But this time, the administration’s failure to take further action is unacceptable. According to the group, BLSA has “lost its patience” with the Law School’s “indifference...
...wife's family to buy the rights to Federico Fellini's La Strada. By the end, Kirch had amassed a film library of 15,000 titles, the largest outside Hollywood. He also owned the broadcast rights to World Cup soccer and a majority of the company that controls Formula One. KirchMedia held a controlling stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media, one of Germany's two commercial television networks...
While KirchMedia represents one of the three branches of the business, there was speculation that TaurusHolding, the main holding company owned by Kirch, as well as the pay television operation KirchPayTV might also be forced into bankruptcy shortly. Another division, KirchBeteiligungs, holds the rights to Formula One auto racing as well as a 40% stake in the Springer publishing firm, which could both be sold off to reduce debt. While there has been a public clamor to find a "German solution" to the Kirch bankruptcy, Schr?der has said he would have no objections if Murdoch took over parts...