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Unlike most businessmen, the successful owners cannot afford to drive their competitors into bankruptcy, since they have to have opponents to play against. Under the agreement worked out last week, the owners are expected to set aside a portion of national TV revenue to help struggling clubs, but the details were still to be specified...
...stake is the indispensable Japanese market: Japan's consumers spend more money on luxury goods than anyone else in the world, and they account for a monster portion of revenue, 25% to 30%, for both companies. Coach had total sales of $1.32 billion last fiscal year, LVMH $16.18 billion. Coach often tests its hottest designs in Japan. After shoppers responded well to the Signature Collection in 2001, for instance, the company increased production of those bags in Japan...
...human emotion that the rest of the film lacks. There are no specific scenes that truly encapsulate this tone; rather, the brief touches of subtle emotion—furtive glances across the playground, an awkward conversation overlooking Central Park, a first kiss—are what make this small portion of the film so good. Duchovny’s camera captures these brief encounters as quick snapshots of isolated emotion that, strung together, approach the sublime...
...regret that people were offended by the notion of Snoop Dogg coming to Harvard, and it was certainly not our goal to insult any portion of the student body,” Glazer said...
Their strategy worked beautifully. The growth-hormone gene was incorporated into the DNA of about a third of the mouse pups and, most important, was activated in a variety of tissues. These offspring, spurred on by the extra portion of growth hormone, ballooned to twice the size of normal mice. What is more, because the new gene was present in all their cells, including their sex cells, it was passed along to the next generation. Says Brinster: "We're now doing work on the seventh generation of Supermouse...