Word: meres
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Seventeen years and a quantum market shift later, natural and organic foods own the hottest corner of food retailing, in which soccer moms mingle with ponytailed herbalists in the aisles of sparkling new stores. Sales of organic products alone, a mere $178 million in 1980, have blossomed into more than $4 billion, while sales of "natural" products--a term that's slicker than soy paste--have tripled in the 1990s and now exceed $12 billion. The retail organic-and-natural-foods business is gorging itself on 20%-plus annual-sales increases, in contrast to a subsistence diet...
When the Feds nabbed Larry Wayne Harris and friend for allegedly carrying around enough anthrax to wipe out Las Vegas, CP's first thoughts were for safe havens. Would mere anthrax spores be able to permeate the casinos, those air-conditioned, oxygen-fed castles which house our nation's desperate souls? Perhaps not. Clearly, the message is: don't ever stop gambling...
...This is the additional money Harvard could spend if it increased payout from its $11.2 billion endowment by a mere 1 percent. We believe it should...
...endowment growth, the University can certainly reward itself for its good stewardship by opening the bank vaults just a little--enough to fund those needs that Harvard students have been clamoring about for years, such as smaller classes, better advising, remodeled athletic facilities. Just how much money is this mere 1 percent? Last year, the University collected $147.9 million in undergraduate tuition. $111.6 million could wipe out 75 percent of this...
...burst of contact between Jordan and the former intern during December and January: Four meetings, a dozen phone calls and a ride in a chauffeured limo. That's circumstantial, but what the prosecutors claim is that Jordan expended all this energy to find Lewinsky a job at Revlon a mere three days after he learned she was to be a witness in the Paula Jones suit. What this shows is that Whitewater prosecutors appear to be working toward a Jordan indictment, either for suborning perjury or obstructing justice. Note to Ken Starr -- if you want to try a groundbreaking civil...