Word: peeking
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...beginning to look a lot like a corporate Christmas. Just take a peek at Santa's list. For Jeff, a C.P.A. who dreams of the open road, St. Nick is bringing a Harley-Davidson beach towel. Steve, a devoted cola drinker, is getting a sweatshirt emblazoned with the Coke trademark. Lara, a young sweet tooth, will find a pair of Hershey overalls under the tree. Dan, a Dr Pepper fan, will get a brand-new refrigerator (price: $529) plastered with his favorite soda's trademark. Indeed, as consumers head to the stores this week for the first official...
Rearden, president of Duncan Peek Inc., an Atlanta insurance brokerage, earns commissions selling policies at soaring premium rates. But when the time came to renew his own professional liability policy, his carrier wanted to jack up his $13,000 premium by 861%, to $125,000; Rearden had to scramble to find another company that would only triple his premium cost. "And that's me, and I'm in the insurance business!" wails Rearden. "That's what I mean when I say this crisis is affecting everybody...
GETTING A SNEAK PEEK...
Early on March 2, an anonymous hacker posted step-by-step instructions on Business Week Online’s technology forum explaining how HBS applicants could attempt to peek at their admissions status a month early by logging in to their application and changing...
...straitjackets. It's also home to some of the city's richest but oft-forgotten cultural history. Back in the U Street corridor's heyday, the place to be on a Saturday night was the Lincoln Theatre. The Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA...