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Dimitris, who owns a small retail operation, admits he cheats on his taxes. He says he only submits tax invoices for roughly half of what he sells - about $17,000 of the $34,000 he takes in every year - and pockets the 19% sales tax he collects on the rest. When he files his income tax return, he declares only the revenue for which he has issued receipts. The system works because further up the chain his suppliers only declare half of what they sell him, and further up still, someone brings many of the goods into the country without...
Even Cardinal's cash cow, its drug distribution, had begun to fall behind. Nearly half of the company's customers are national retail chains, including Walgreens and CVS Caremark. While these contracts assure a steady flow of capital, the margins on them are razor thin. Losing just one client could be catastrophic...
...Jens Moberg, the head of Better Place Denmark, says the company is aiming to have the first cars on the road in Denmark by the second half of 2011. Within one year, he expects the number of vehicles to be "in the thousands," and by 2020, he believes there will be more electric cars sold in Denmark than combustion-engine cars. "We've managed our business in a responsible way and the Danish government has said we want to support this," he tells TIME. But he knows there's also an inherent risk in being first, particularly when it involves...
Weather has also been one of the big stories here. Cypress Mountain, which hosts the half-pipe and mogul skiing events, is so barren of snow the white stuff had to be trucked in from the colder reaches of the Great White North. At Whistler, it's been raining at the bottom of the mountain, which washed away the schedules for the men's downhill and the women's super combined events. In Olympic events, you ski to the bottom of the hill, and the bottom was slushy. (See TIME's full coverage of Vancouver...
...Still, no one's Olympic uniform is more confounding than Hubertus von Hohenlohe's. "It sounds strange," von Hohenlohe admits while relaxing in an Olympic Village coffee shop before the Mexican flag-raising event. "But it's not all that bad." The skier's grandmother is half-Mexican, and von Hohenlohe, who is a Vienna-based singer and photographer when he's not speeding down the slopes, was born in Mexico City while his father was running a Volkswagen plant there. "We always wanted to have one member of the family [who was] Mexican," he says. "So they chose that...