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Singh's plan centered on Gurgaon, a dry, scrubby plain in the state of Haryana, near New Delhi. If he could buy enough land and then convince authorities to change their regulations preventing companies from acquiring farmland for commercial use, perhaps he could outdo his father-in-law's success. By 1981, though, the company had acquired just 40 acres and failed to change the law. Frustrated and despondent, he sat beside a well one scorching summer day. What the heck can you do in this place? he recalls wondering...
BERLIN Deceptively plain, these D&G glasses ($311) sport crystal logos on the arms...
Researchers at Stanford University found that children as young as three years old responded to the fast food chain's familiar logo and packaging, saying that they preferred the taste of food coming out of McDonald's bags to the taste of the same food items emerging from plain paper bags. The scientists asked 63 children between the ages of three and five to participate in more than 104 taste tests with some of McDonald's most popular items - including a hamburger, French fries and chicken nuggets. On average, 48% of the kids said they preferred the taste...
Exactly. The world saw him as a genius, and he was worrying about the weekend grosses. Yet he was plain and colloquial in speech, not full of profound pronunciamentos about life. Sven Nykvist [his cinematographer] told me that when they were doing all those scenes about death and dying, they'd be cracking jokes and gossiping about the actors' sex lives...
...Exactly. The world saw him as a genius, and he was worrying about the weekend grosses. Yet he was plain and colloquial in speech, not full of profound pronunciamentos about life. Sven Nykvist [his cinematographer] told me that when they were doing all those scenes about death and dying, they'd be cracking jokes and gossiping about the actors' sex lives...