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...coconut flavors, has surged from 1,500 to 45,000 a day, and they are tickling taste buds in 18 states, from California to Massachusetts. That popularity has come despite a price as rich as the taste: from $1.45 at a supermarket to $2 at a New York City peddler's cart for a single bar. Says Caryn Salzman, a Chicago secretary: "They're expensive, but they're worth it. They're heavenly...
...left-wing perversion; a good many of those renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters. Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk. Porn doesn't affront contemporary community standards. It is a contemporary community standard...
...years old, and before I came to America, I must have toured the length and breadth of England many times, playing music halls, doing holiday shows and singing at concerts. Yet other than The Boy Friend, I had never done a book musical, and Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower peddler who becomes a lady, is probably one of the greatest and most difficult roles that an actress could tackle...
Native American once lived, Las Vegas had an identity crisis. It built theme parks, believing that if its vices had become acceptable, it might as well be a peddler of family-friendly activities. And it stumbled. Because what Vegas hadn't understood is that, compared with even the most worn-out vices, like keno and showgirls, roller coasters bite. So now Vegas has reinvented itself again, returning to vice but sanitizing it by creating the biggest, nicest place to sin ever imagined, a Sodom and Gomorrah without the guilt. People come to Vegas not to do what they...
...Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law passed in 2002 that imposed tough new rules for how public companies - including many European ones - report their numbers. New provisions of the law continue to kick in, which might explain some curiously timed events. (Does the outgoing CFO of Linux peddler Red Hat really want to spend more time with his family?) Partly because of the stringent law, fewer foreign firms are listing shares in New York . New international listings have fallen by half since 2001 and may halve again this year. Indeed, the London Stock Exchange is using rising U.S. compliance costs...