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...grandfather's life during the Holocaust. Hutz plays Alex, a local driver and translator. In a charmingly subtle performance, he restrains his energy levels and, in mangled English, delivers the film's best lines. One highlight: "Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer...
Olmert and his cabinet overrode advice from the chiefs of Mossad and the Shin Bet, Israel's foreign and domestic intelligence agencies, not to release live - and potentially dangerous - prisoners. But Israel has always placed a premium on securing the remains of its soldiers fallen in foreign battles. And calls for a prisoner swap have turned into a charged and emotive public issue in Israel - with general elections just around the corner, few cabinet ministers were willing to go against the popular tide. As Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is in favor of a prisoner swap, said today: "We have...
...worth consumers - in Western societies defined as those with annual gross income and assets of at least $500,000 - use the Internet daily, and they regularly buy products online. A great opportunity for luxury goods, right? One would think so, but only a third of the world's premium brands sell their goods online, according to a new study by consultants Forrester Research. And fully half of those eschewing web sales have no plans to change course. On the sidelines are some of the sector's biggest names, including Cartier, Versace and Rolex...
...online sales shows no signs of easing. In Europe alone, total online sales should rocket 63% from an estimated $246 billion this year, to $401 billion in 2011, it predicts. In the U.S., total sales are expected to soar 93% from last year to $335 billion in 2012. Premium brand companies that are selling online expect their total sales to jump 111% within five years, by which point they will account for 22% of total sales. And selling on the web can help boost a company's brick-and-mortar sales, too. "It's our most powerful marketing tool...
...keep in mind, the list can change at any time. The unfairness of this bait-and-switch game - to both patients and doctors - is pretty nasty. The hospitals and facilities you signed up for originally might suddenly be replaced by facilities that are - you guessed it - cheaper. While your premium (and the CEO's bonus) goes up, the dollar value of what you're getting - i.e., what the company will pay your hospital or doctor for their services - goes down...