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...McDonald's might want to stay aggressive, because Starbucks won't go away quietly. The company is introducing a grande iced coffee for under $2 this summer, and the company has said it will lower prices on basic drinks in some markets. Starbucks has also just launched print ads taking direct aim at the quality of other coffee brands like McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts. "Beware of a cheaper cup of coffee. It comes with a price," reads one ad. "If your coffee isn't perfect, we'll make it over," says another. "If it's still not perfect, make...
...Porsche's management found it easy to wind its way through capital markets to scoop up VW shares, it was less agile at negotiating the twists and turns in the political relationships needed to take control of a company like VW. The company is based in Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony and the state holds 20% of its shares, but through a law written just for VW, the so-called "Lex VW," the state cannot be outvoted. Lower Saxony's governor, Christian Wulff, a Christian Democrat who sits on the VW supervisory board, opposed a takeover of the company by Porsche...
...gotta play to a tie. Unless there’s a black guy like Pharrell, then he’s totally gonna smash you. D.A.: Every time. 10. FM: By the way, you guys know this is running in FM, right?Max: Oh great, yeah yeah, FM has lower standards, you can print whatever the fuck you want. D.A.: You know a couple years ago I was writing a column for FM. Yeah, go check it out. It ran every week; it’s called the “Bell Lap.” 11. FM: What has been...
...stewards of U.S. security interests in the world's most troubling trouble-spot. An epic suspension of disbelief is required to cast either of the men Obama welcomed at the White House on Wednesday as capable of leading a successful fight against the Taliban. Zardari's approval ratings are lower than those of the reviled former dictator President Pervez Musharraf; his army is reluctant to go to war against a section of the country's citizenry; and Pakistani public opinion remains more hostile to the U.S. than to the Taliban. Karzai, meanwhile, has long been written off by Washington...
...same age were only just behind (32%), second only to Denmark (34%). With around one in ten male teenagers not in education, employment or training, the United Kingdom has the second highest rate in the OECD, after Italy. The rate for females between 15 and 19 is lower only than in Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Spain...