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...second big piece of MLS's strategy has been to become the North American leader in promoting and managing the sport. "We want to be the portal for soccer in the U.S.," says Ivan Gazidis, deputy commissioner of MLS. An MLS division called Soccer United Marketing (SUM) won the rights to promote Mexico's team as well as the U.S. national team. So MLS brings Los Tri to Los Angeles, Miami and other Hispanic hot spots, while the U.S. team works the entire country. Both teams conduct doubleheaders with MLS squads. "We're doing a great job for them," says...
Although the U.S. Energy Department says Katrina didn't damage production as badly as Ivan did a year ago, one energy executive, trading private e-mail, fretted that "the oil industry might be impacted for a year by Katrina." Several days after the storm, the price of gasoline moved above $3 per gal. in cities from New York to Los Angeles, and the government reported receiving more than 5,000 calls to its price-gouging hotline...
...economists are worried that the Kremlin hasn't used the fat years to cut back on the remnants of Soviet-era bureaucracy, modernize Russian industry or improve the overall investment climate. "Russia will continue to be hooked on oil revenue for the foreseeable future," says Ivan Szegvari, a Russian-economy specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. Retailing is booming, but there are relatively few examples of other businesses that have whipped themselves into shape...
...crowd gains bulk. Old, young, some tired from a night or weekend spent in the park to get ready for the march, which will take this crowd a few miles east to Chicago?s Grant Park. ?This is the way that America was built,? said Ivan Miller, 43, a criminal justice student at Westwood College near O?Hare International Airport. ?I?m a black man, and I don?t take offense that the spotlight is on this one population. That?s what America?s about - people coming together, struggling together from all different cultures...
...openings,” she added. Employers expect to raise starting salaries by 3.7 percent in order to attract enough college graduates to fill the increasing positions, according to Koncz. The director of the Office of Career Services, William Wright-Swadel, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Ivan Z. Corwin ’06 said he has already experienced the effects of this favorable job market. The math concentrator plans to work for a hedge fund for a year before attending graduate school. “It was not at all a hard process...