Word: moneyitis
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...These days, the company works with NBA stars like Baron Davis (who has a signature Li Ning shoe, the BD-1) and Shaquille O'Neal (who is under a five-year contract with the brand). But it still maintains its value-for-money approach to marketing - recently making a big push, for example, into badminton, a sport largely ignored in the West but played and watched by some 300 million Chinese. Li Ning - sponsored shuttlecock star Lin Dan graces billboards and TV ads around China, and the firm opened a "badminton paradise" last year in Singapore, its first international outlet...
...stores were bare. Perhaps it's a final party, just like Tsiknopempti, before things get leaner. A recent poll in the newspaper Ethnos reported that 73% of those surveyed said they were willing to make sacrifices to turn the crisis around. "Greeks know the days of living on borrowed money are over," says investor and economist Timos Melissaris. "The time has come to pay the bill." Lent, it seems, is going to last a hell of a lot longer this year...
...specific reasons Pride and Prejudice and Zombies worked that don't necessarily pertain to the knockoffs. It wasn't an arbitrary mashup. Austen's novel is about the comedy and pathos of people whose lives are shaped by monstrous realities that they're too polite to talk about, namely money and sex. Zombies are just another unspeakable thing to tiptoe around. There's a certain dream logic to it, but it doesn't follow that the trick will work twice...
House events also faced minor tweaks. The number of events decreased marginally, and preparations for study breaks and Masters’ Open Houses were slightly altered to save money without students noticing...
...news that their funds would be restricted, many Houses developed innovative ways to cut costs. Lowell House put its House directory online instead of printing copies out for residents, saving about $10,000, while Mather House Committee members participated in a day of Dorm Crew in order to raise money for Mather Lather...