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...response, upscale department stores such as Saks Inc., closely-held Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom Inc., started slashing prices to unload a glut of inventory. Saks fired the first volley, slapping 70%-off signs on luxury designer clothing in early November 2008. Neiman and Barneys frantically followed suit...
...that. (His opponent, Democrat Rob Miller, also raked in $1 million in new donations thanks to the outburst.) Michael Moore makes far more than that with his capitalist-bashing movies. The new Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, cashed in handsomely with his conservative-taunting books. Or check out Beck Inc. to see how loudmouthing can earn you a river of cash...
...With a staff of about 25 employees at Mercury and 10 or so at Fox, Beck Inc. is doing its part to jump-start the economy. And there are ancillary industries feeding on the success of Beck and others like him. Both left- and right-wing not-for-profit groups operate as self-anointed media watchdogs, and one of the largest of these - the liberal group Media Matters for America - has a multimillion-dollar budget. Staff members monitor Beck's every public utterance, poised to cherry-pick the most inflammatory sentences. (Conservative outfits do the same for the likes...
...unit subsidized housing complex, owned by Charlesview, Inc., an interdenominational faith-based, non-profit organization, was constructed in 1971 but has not been adequately maintained. Yet initial offers from the University for a land swap were rebuffed by the board and the residents. Even when the board voted in 2006 to accept an offer from Harvard for 6.25 acres of land where the Brighton Mills shopping center is currently located, residents remained dissatisfied, staging protests and charging that they were being excluded from the decision-making process...
...University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall, when asked whether Harvard is open to the possibility of providing more land for development or if it had other institutional designs for those plots, wrote in an e-mailed statement that the University has “had a productive discussion with Charlesview Inc.” and “remains respectful of the public review process that is underway...