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...find a dollar doughnut menu at Dunkin'. Rather than engage in a price war with the fast-food giants, Dunkin' is trying to close the gap between itself and Starbucks. Although it makes more money on breakfast sales overall than the Seattle-based chain, the average Dunkin' check is just $1.85, vs. $3.75 at Starbucks, notes food analyst Tom Miner of research firm Technomic. Dunkin' has positioned its breakfast sandwiches as quick quality, at the same price as Starbucks, $2.99. "I think they're in a good position against their competitors," says Miner. "Their biggest challenge is to focus...
Charles said the gap had less to do with value systems of immigrants as a group, and more with who immigrants tend...
...percentage (-.025), Harvard was unable to reach 30 points before MIT took the game. Quickly giving up the first four points of the game, the Crimson struggled to regain momentum for the first half. After a string of hits and blocks by Nelson and Weissbourd, the Crimson narrowed the gap, only trailing the Engineers by two points, 22-24, but fell in the end after four consecutive errors.Splitting the first two games helped Harvard realize that it had to step up.“[The second game] really shocked us in. I’ve never lost...
...widespread feeling that Bush - who came to office pledging to be Latin America's mejor amigo - instead essentially abandoned the region when it refused to line up behind his Iraq invasion, and a just as pervasive belief that Washington-backed capitalist reforms have helped widen the region's gap between rich and poor, the world's worst. Add to that the U.S.'s perceived obsession with hemispheric campaigns like the drug war, border fences and free-trade agreements instead of initiatives to improve health care, schools and small business development, and it's no surprise that Latin America's resurgent...
...specific development engines that may well create decent-paying jobs. The gesture may be too little too late to repair Bush's own frayed relations with the region, but it "helps lay the groundwork for a new, more engaged approach to Latin America that tries to redress the tremendous gap between what Washington cares about and what Latin Americans worry about," says Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Washington-based think thank Inter-American Dialogue...