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...Friendly Eating Place has been serving Cambridge for more than 20 years and Petros supposes that the friendliness of the restaurant has increased over time. He doesn’t see other area businesses as particularly unfriendly but the hungover regular says Petros is being too modest. “It’s one of the friendliest places in the Square. Everyone cops an attitude up in the Square,” he opines. When asked if the eatery is friendlier than a certain friendly burger and ice cream chain, even Petros must exclaim, “Hell, yeah...
...horrible thing that this is where our energies need to be pulled," says Cheri Sparacio, 37, the widow of Thomas Sparacio, a currency trader at Euro Brokers who died in Tower 2. In their modest house in Staten Island, littered with the toys of her twin two-year-olds, she explains why she sees the estimated $138,000 she would get from the fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than...
...more galling to them because they actually know many of Harvard’s lowest paid workers: the security guards who protect them; the dining hall workers who feed them; the custodians who clean their dorms. There is a sense of moral outrage, especially, I find, among students from modest backgrounds like my own, who understand that Harvard’s workers are like so many of our own relatives—our parents and grandparents, our siblings and cousins and loved ones—who have worked so hard for so little for so long...
...some ways, 2001 was the year e-commerce grew up. Sales growth, a relatively modest 35%, reaching $12.4 billion for the fourth quarter, according to BizRate.com showed signs of tapering off--one mark of maturity. Another indicator: you didn't hear nearly so much griping about e-tailers dropping the ball in fulfilling orders. Most were more up-front with customers about product availability and delivery deadlines. And they were more fiscally responsible. No longer willing to lose money on every sale to acquire customers--that's so 1999--many dropped free-shipping offers (though some still offered...
...Meanwhile, the French development system unwillingly outsources crucial finishing work to the same foreign clubs it often accuses of poaching. If modest means - as well as France's weighty tax structure - has made player development a common priority of French clubs, it has also left them unable to withstand the flight of players abroad. (In Korea/Japan 2000, coach Roger Lemerre's first XI may not include a single player from a French club.) "The soccer schools in France are great, and young players are given the chance to play," says AS Roma defender and national team hopeful Jonathan Zebina...