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Though Whitmire said the Quad House Masters had a hint of the decision to come, none of the House Committees were consulted...
Reducing and capping CD prices—which the Universal Music Group decided to do last week, cutting wholesale prices by up to 30 percent—would be a more effective way to win back the support and cash of music lovers. The RIAA could also take a hint from Apple’s hugely successful iMusic, which sells individual song files over the Internet directly to consumers, as many other legal downloading programs don’t currently offer a selection of music as vast as systems like Kazaa. There is a huge potential for growth in this...
...hopping Wall Streeters have never put a premium on loyalty. So Dick Grasso is a rarity--a man who has had exactly one employer, the New York Stock Exchange, in his entire 36-year career. The Big Board chairman gave a hint last week to what's been keeping him there. Mindful of the exchange's push for more openness among its members, Grasso disclosed that he earns a minimum $2.4 million annually. Very nice, that. But he also announced that he would cash out close to $140 million in deferred pay and retirement benefits this year...
Paris without us - well, that would be rather a different story," says Jean-Louis Costes with just a hint of a smile, and if you don't know the man you might think he's an amiable megalomaniac. After all, most Parisians have never heard of Costes or his brother Gilbert; they rarely speak to the press. But if you've spent even a weekend in Paris, it's a good bet they have taken your money and shown you a good time. The Costes brothers are limonadiers, French slang for café owners, but theirs is a lemonade empire...
...startled some palates. Tea is hot these days: sales doubled between 1990 and last year, to $5.3 billion, according to the Tea Council of the U.S.A. But the sharpest increase came from ready-to-drink cold teas, whose sales grew 800% over the same period. If you want a hint of sweet, try Honest Tea's line of lightly sweetened organic teas. Still sweeter? Try SwissT's honey-infused Green Tea. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen