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Rappaport’s largest project is the Charles River Park, a residential, office, and retail community in Boston. The community has over 2500 housing units, hotel space, health clubs, retail stores, and athletic facilities...
...heart, I had no trouble with any discs, even ones it had previously rejected. Samsung assures me this problem can be solved with a firmware upgrade, administered via disc. The company also stated that its review samples were not from the same production run as the ones now in retail, but I still urge caution. The BD-P1000 is first-generation equipment, and it, like Toshiba's HD DVD player, may be buggy. (Toshiba recently told me that it too was offering a firmware update disc for its player...
...nuclear arms. The Russian gems went into the vaults under Charterhouse Street. When the Soviet Union unraveled in 1990, De Beers went back to Moscow, offering the transitional government $1 billion in exchange for part of the nation's stockpile of Siberian diamonds. Diamonds were a $40 billion retail business by the 1990s. Only one thing could threaten its position-a large supply of stones outside the grasp of the cartel...
...baseball caps and khakis. But Mayor Richard M. Daley thinks he can change all that. Daley recently announced the creation of a Fashion Advisory Council, a city-backed coalition of local designers and industry champions who will promote fashion growth. By nurturing designers, the city hopes to bolster its retail economy, gain tourism dollars and heighten its image as a world-class city...
...Marshall stack? Partly it's a turn in the fashion cycle from dance music - with its DJs, clubs and records - to live shows. But it's also part of a broader shift in the economics of pop music. Despite a threefold increase in digital-music revenue from downloads, global-retail revenues from recorded music fell a further 2% in 2005; overall the figure is down 20% since 1999. That crisis has seen a wholesale revamping of the music-business model. In the old days, sending a band on tour was seen as a necessity, often purely to promote record sales...