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...alone abused--by his constituents. Nor are their powers all they're cracked up to be. When AWOL is used, ingesting the equivalent of half a shot of liquor takes 20 minutes, according to Morse. "It's nearly impossible to get drunk with it," he says. A bar owner in West Paterson, N.J., even returned the gizmo because it didn't offer enough of a buzz. Mothers Against Drunk Driving president Wendy Hamilton considers vaporized alcohol a low priority compared with getting states like Florida to enact stricter seat-belt laws. "Legislatures," she explains wearily, "get distracted...
...private. But even if he's all but won the financial battle, Glazer has yet to win the war. When the news first broke on Thursday, protesting fans flooded British radio stations and Internet chat rooms and set fire to an effigy of the 76-year-old would-be owner outside the club's Old Trafford stadium. "People feel very, very deeply about this club," says John Williams, director of the University of Leicester's Centre for the Sociology of Sport. But if Manchester United is as successful under Glazer's ownership as the Buccaneers, who won the Super Bowl...
Betting on Consolidation After e-commerce boom and bust comes merger mania: that was the sense last week as online travel firm lastminute.com - the money-losing, London-based icon of the Internet frenzy - agreed to a $1.1 billion takeover by Texas-based Sabre Holdings, owner of rival Travelocity. The grounds? While there's room for growth in Europe 's Web-based travel sector - as little as 10% of trips are currently booked online in the region - there's no longer room for everyone. Price pressure from major hotels' and airlines' own online operations means Web-based operators "need...
...father of Eric Imhof, the co-owner of Hoffa’s Swiss Alps, owned the Swiss Alps restaurant that occupied the 114 Mount Auburn St. building before Chili’s opened there...
...David Tetraer, co-owner of Brother Jimmy’s, said that there was not enough business to keep his Winthrop Street restaurant afloat...