Word: metros
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...probably been some overruns, but I still consider Athens' legacy to be a very good one," says Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee ( i.o.c.). "It's a new city. They have the airport, they have the ring road, they have the suburban trains and they have the metro." You might think that in light of Athens' very mixed record, other cities would look at the Greek experience and shy away. You would think wrong. On July 6, in Singapore, the i.o.c. will announce which city will next take up the Olympic torch and host the 2012 Summer Games...
...reference to the controversy over his remarks on women in science. (Summers had been mentioned in just 11 articles by the same time in 2004.) Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale, has found his way into the Times just twice this year, never making it out of the Metro section...
...sizable chunk of Miami's condo buyers--as much as 70%, estimates real estate analyst Lewis Goodkin--is made up of investors itching to flip condos like scalpers wanting to unload Orange Bowl tickets. And the story is similar in other highly developed metro areas. The biggest-paying bets in Las Vegas are being laid on the condos and hotel condos (essentially, hotel suites that you can buy) going up on the Strip. On Valentine's Day morning, Bruce Hiatt, a broker and co-owner of Luxury Realty Group, showed up at the Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with...
...Spain. The publication now ranks as one of the country's most widely circulated papers. At least for now, the Spanish market seems capable of supporting both giveaways and paid-for papers. But free sheets poaching readers from traditional titles "has contributed to a crisis" in France, insists Pecquerie. Metro International's 10 editions, stacked alongside 20 Minutes' coverage of seven French cities, mean "the menace is real for the paid-for newspapers...
...think they haven't noticed. Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, the parent company of U.K. publisher News International, admitted in February that Associated's free Metro may have dented circulation of his top-selling Sun tabloid by as many as 40,000 copies per day. "The record of these free newspapers has been ... to more seriously damage existing newspapers," Murdoch said. In the U.S., at least one prestigious publisher felt it had to join the free movement; the New York Times Company in January bought a 49% stake in Metro International's Boston operation for $16.5 million. Even Associated...