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...crisis have turned some bottom lines red, while major new projects have been shelved due to lack of financing and an uncertain business outlook. The latest hard-luck story: MGM Mirage. This week, the Las Vegas-based company disclosed that New Jersey gaming industry regulators object to its Macau joint venture partner, raising the possibility that MGM Mirage could pull out of the market. (Watch a video about Macau's gambling boom...
Undergraduate student leaders met Friday to discuss a joint reaction to the sweeping budget cuts announced last Monday by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The group agreed on a three-phase protest dubbed “We Are Harvard: Students, Staff, and Faculty for Transparency and Inclusion in Budget Cuts,” which will take place before, during, and after the monthly Faculty meeting this Tuesday.The administration is “still not being transparent,” said Andrea R. Flores ’10, Undergraduate Council president, at the meeting. Other than Flores, Institute of Politics...
...Spellberg, a joint English and Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, submitted his senior thesis entitled “Art and Dream in Marcel Proust,” which explores the theme of dreaming in Proust’s novels, a topic he said has fascinated him for years...
...wholesale operations in India are under a joint venture with New Delhi-based Bharti Enterprises. The U.S. company's retail presence is restricted to providing back-end support for Bharti's chain of 25 Easy Day grocery stores that opened last year. (Read how Microsoft is following in Wal-Mart's footsteps...
...Although other foreign hypermarket chains are entering the country - British retail group Tesco has a joint venture with India's giant Tata conglomerate, while France's Carrefour is said to be in talks with Reliance - Jain says Wal-Mart is in no hurry to unfurl the Wal-Mart flag nationally. "The easiest thing is to roll out stores, but the most difficult is to sustain and feed them," he says...