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...successfully ventured into Northern Ireland in 1999. It conquered Scotland in 2004 and 2005, hit London in 2005 and took on the rest of England in 2006. British rivals maintain that C&C is just riding a wave of popularity, not creating it. Sales of Strongbow, an S&N brand that boasts a 60% share of the U.K. cider market, have grown consistently for four years, the company says. Analyst O'Reilly disagrees, calculating that more than 70% of cider's recent growth is attributable to Magners. Certainly, rivals have dashed to bring out their own over-ice ciders...
...long history of drinking cider in Britain and Ireland. But will consumers beyond those isles submit to the allure of an icy glass of fermented apple juice? Eager to gauge their thirst, C&C is conducting market tests in two European cities - Barcelona and Munich - this summer. And S&N says it expects to offer its cider brands in a variety of Continental markets. Both admit it will be a harder sell. Barring a few exceptions - like northern France - cider drinking is unknown across most of Europe. Fenella Tyler, communications manager for S&N's cider division, admits: "In Portugal...
...currently fewer than 10 black baseball players in the Ivy League, and that some teams have none on the roster. In fact, Harvard welcomed its first African-American player in seven years this season in designated hitter Andrew M. Prince ’10. The last was Peter N. Woodfork ’99, who now serves as the current assistant general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Though Harvard has had several Latin-American players in the past, Hispanics at the collegiate level account for even less of the national pie, at 4.3 percent...
...CORPORATE BEHAVIOR’Meanwhile, students at Harvard and other universities are working to amass that support. A campus petition launched in March has garnered over 1,400 signatures, while an Undergraduate Council resolution supporting the group’s divestment proposal passed unopposed in mid-April.Peter N. Ganong ’09, an Adams House resident and member of HDAG, says the group received a response to its letters and petitions from Interim President Derek C. Bok. Bok wrote on March 16 that he had forwarded two letters from HDAG to the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR...
...challenges and limitations that apply to dubbing as well as subtitling - unlike literature which has the safety net of footnotes, film subtitlers have to make it work in the moment, all while trying to adapt wordplay and cultural references. "Characters in Boyz in the Hood talked about Amos n' Andy," says Béhar. "Well, in France that wouldn't mean anything. I went with Laurel and Hardy, but of course all the racial and political significance was gone. Sixteen years later, I'm still trying to find a better alternative...