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Cupcakes are, but doughnuts aren't. Ritz crackers are, but saltines aren't. Granola bars are, but granola cereal isn't. Confused? So are shoppers in California, where the state government last week extended its sales tax to candy and "snack foods." But the exemption for food products remains, forcing beleaguered bureaucrats into an exercise in semantics: What is a "food," and what is a "snack"? The extra $200 million may help balance the books, but it has nearly unbalanced grocers as they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed...
That same night, the committee convened at the Ritz Carlton in Boston and met with Rudenstine for more than four hours...
Their favorite meeting spots were the Charles Hotel in Cambridge and the offices of the McKinsey Corp. in New York City. As pressure from reporters increased near the end of the search, committee members were more creative, holding meetings at a number of opulent hotels including the Ritz Carlton in Boston, the Stanhope in New York and finally the Waldorf-Astoria...
...course, not even a suite at the Ritz-Carlton would please every undergraduate, and some students have voiced concerns about how the new housing complex will affect the house system...
Time was when the hotel industry mixed glamour and high finance in an intoxicating cocktail that attracted the most flamboyant entrepreneurs of the past century -- Conrad Hilton, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Cesar Ritz. But check in today at thousands of U.S. hostelries, including Hiltons, Sheratons and Marriotts, and your innkeeper will belong to a far more somber group: Citicorp, Wells Fargo Bank, Travelers insurance and others...