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Stuart Heiser, a spokesman for the Council of Graduate Schools, said the increasing efforts of other countries to recruit international students should serve as a wake-up call for U.S. schools. “Just in the last six months a number of countries have announced multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns to attract international students,” Heiser said, citing France, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom...
...Zealand All Blacks rugby team and a teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow up Michael Jordan and the enormously successful Air Jordan line of footwear. When the company announced that it had signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with Woods, the reaction was swift--Nike stock fell 5%. Says Bob Wood, one of the officials in that room: "They thought we had overpaid...
...WORLEY, selected to live in a mansion owned by a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income native Hawaiian families...
...while the joint was mentioned in the Hollywood classic The Great Escape as a dream destination after the war. It had lost its luster by the time it was acquired in 2005 by Caprice Holdings?owners of Le Caprice, the Ivy and J. Sheekey?and then closed for a multimillion-dollar renovation...
...cloudless afternoon early last fall, Honda CEO Takeo Fukui stood by his company's test track outside Tokyo and watched a group of journalists take the company's environmental future for a spin. After test-driving Honda's multimillion-dollar hydrogen-fuel-cell concept car--very, very carefully--I sat down with Fukui to talk about his company's big bet on clean automobiles. As a young engineer in 1972, Fukui designed the first engine capable of meeting the 1970 Clean Air Act's emission standards without a costly catalytic converter, making Honda one of the first car companies...