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...than half that price in Los Angeles. At the Louis Vuitton store on Manhattan's East 57th Street, where the most popular handbag sells for $295 (vs. $489 in Tokyo), nearly 50% of the customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock. Says...
Hitech shares a special table, strategically located near a phone jack and an electrical outlet, with a second computer contestant named BP. BP runs on a Compaq PC, a crowd pleaser with its flashy electronic chessboard. Hitech is not even physically present. An ungainly-looking brute, with circuit boards that poke out of a metal rack like truncated wings, Hitech remains in Pittsburgh, hidden away in a laboratory on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, where Berliner teaches computer science...
...volunteers say they seek to accomplish something much more basic than pure academic instruction. By socializing with the prioners, tutors say, they hope to help the inmates reintegrate themselves into mainstream society. "We're trying to give them an outlet to the outside world," Walter says. "Exposure to nice, happy people who aren't involved in crime is good for them...
Some American companies have found ways around the currency problem. PepsiCo, which plans to build two Pizza Hut shops in Moscow later this year, will accept rubles at one outlet and collect foreign currencies at another one, in a tourist neighborhood. Occidental, on the other hand, will export 25% of the plastics produced in its Soviet factories for sale in Western Europe and other markets...
...parlors have long offered this service, the upstart Domino's Pizza of Ann Arbor, Mich., upped the ante. Promising a $3 discount on the price of any pie that takes longer than 30 minutes to arrive, Domino's, now the second largest chain, has grown to 4,375 outlets. At least one Domino's operator even delivers by boat. Art Hurteau, 29, owner of an outlet on Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks, maintains a fleet of ten speedboats to get pies to vacationers. Starting this week, Hurteau's employees will be cruising the lake, taking orders from boaters...