Word: price
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resides in not capturing the band's raw performing power. Still, this is an essential for the Led Zeppelin novice--although if you've already got the boxed set, don't bother. The CD-ROM video of a "Communication Breakdown" performance is a nice touch, but not worth the price of admission. It deserves an A, but only if you haven't got the other albums already...
...attack came as Safra was moving to complete the sale of Republic National to the London-based HSBC banking group for $10.3 billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic...
...McDonald's has been on the move under new CEO Jack Greenberg, aquiring Tex-Mex and pizza chains in the past year. And it's not taking too much of a risk - if it can't make the 751 Boston Market franchises (which it snatched at a bargain basement price of $131 million) solvent again, it can easily convert some or all of them into McDonald's or other eateries for significantly less than the cost of building new premises. And, who knows, maybe Ronald McDonald will learn from Boston Market - and those spongy McNuggets will more closely resemble real...
...said others also objected that "anything we do to subsidize education will just encourage institutions to raise the price...
...mail baby pictures to Grandpa Jim. Edit those corny home movies on your PC. There are lots of reasons to go digital now, but the best one is price. Mattel's NickClick, an entry-level digital camera for kids, is just $70, and digital camcorders have slipped below $1,000. Shopping sites like mysimon.com show prices way under list. With digital imaging becoming so affordable, companies are making it practical too. Home photo printers are easy to use, and video cameras' high-speed FireWire ports move huge video files to your computer fast. The big picture is only getting better...