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...seat on the board of directors. Since then, the company has announced a number of major changes. On January 30, the company said it would stop selling breakfast sandwiches (in response to criticism that the odor covered up the smell of coffee), slow its rapid pace of opening stores in the U.S., and no longer report comparable-store sales to Wall Street - a sign that the company is serious about investing for long-term growth and not catering to short-term concerns from investors...
...couple of weeks before the show. It's a path the recorded-music business knows well. Long resistant to change, it, too, has finally accepted the need for rehabilitation. The industry's woes have, for some years, been glaringly public. Rising sales of digital music can't keep pace with the fall in sales of CDs: record-company revenues from such tangible products tumbled roughly 6% in 2007, leaving firms with some $19.3 billion in total sales last year, a quarter less than in 1999. The digital market is hardly new, yet it still seems to catch major record labels...
...Allard says. “I think she’s going to keep people up and keep people working…She is kind of the heart and soul of the team in that way.”Madick though, is the player who will set the pace for the season—as a captain should.“It is really important that we show poise and determination,” Madick says.Allard is confident that showing those critical qualities is Madick’s style.“She is not necessarily going to be behind...
...late-inning defensive replacement or a right-handed pinch hitter, but was thrust unexpectedly into the starting nine down the stretch of last season when Byrne went down with an injury. In the second game of a Sunday doubleheader in Providence, Harvard desperately needed a win to keep pace with the Bears in the standings Jenkins came up to the plate in the fourth inning with his team nursing a narrow lead. Ever the hacker, Jenkins unloaded on—what else—a first-pitch fastball and saw it soar out towards the tall net above the fence...
...ponderous pace of efforts to improve the site may, however, be in keeping with its history. Stonehenge was probably built in three key stages, roughly between 3050 B.C. and 1500 B.C. The identity of its builders, and its purpose, may never be known. Various theories suggest it may have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds...