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...much bigger production. The hefty book had to be whittled down, so Gfaller cut subplots, conflated characters and streamlined the story so it could be told in two hours and 40 minutes. Throughout, his goal was to stay true to the author. “I tried to retain as much of Dickens’ language as possible,” he says. For the musical aspect of the project, Gfaller gained inspiration from Stephen Sondheim’s work. He played with the idea of musical motifs and tried to give characters song styles that matched their personas. Eliot...
Immediately after the attack, Karzai says, her storefront was defaced and passers-by often yelled insults. But Massachusetts police officers spoke with Karzai and her family and advised her on measures to retain her anonymity...
...said the University is actively seeking to retain its current tenants and find new businesses to fill the empty space—now amounting to about half the complex...
...kept high and slightly ahead of supply. Rivals like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus have moderate to expensive models under one brand, but with its PAG cars, Ford offers a similar price range divided among four brands. Reitzle says his products fit into every premium niche and still retain their exclusivity. While competitors are stretching - and possibly overstretching - their brands from the top to the bottom of the premium market, PAG can use Volvo to tap the (relatively) lower end while Aston Martin caters to the very wealthiest buyers...
...labor; it is the reason that hundreds or thousands of individually powerless individuals can exact just compensation from practically omnipotent institutions. The reason that Harvard wants to prevent its workers from striking—because a walk-out would paralyze the community—is precisely why workers must retain the right to do so. Without the strike, or at least the threat of one, labor negotiations are necessarily heavily weighted on the side of the employer...