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...keeping two or three registers open at all times, Christy's manager says he hopes to avoid the long lines which frequently plague Store 24. "We try to offer premium products at a good value and give good service," says Mark Eichenbaum, manager of the Harvard Square Christy...
...keeping two or three registers open at all times, Christy's manager says he hopes to avoid the long lines which frequently plague Store 24. "We try to offer premium products at a good value and give good service," says Mark Eichenbaum, manager of the Harvard Square Christy...
Working in a profession that puts a premium on action shots, photojournalists have long turned out scenes with the same laissez-faire approach to composition. But in general, the exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic...
London's boom has also put a premium on office space. Rents are currently spiraling upward at a rate of 11% a year. Last spring the planning authority for the City of London authorized the construction of 20 million sq. ft. in new office space, nearly one-third of the existing total. Just outside the City, one of the largest new financial projects is planned for Canary Wharf, a $4 billion development on the once desolate patch of Thames dockland known as the Isle of Dogs...
...such items as automobiles, meat and eggs, leading merchants to ask for under- the-table sweeteners, meaning renewed price pressure. When the raids were launched, illicit greenbacks were selling in Brazil for 88% more than the legal rate, or nearly 26 to the dollar. That was the highest unofficial premium in 33 years...