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...keys to Coke's current strength is its sales growth overseas, particularly in Latin America and emerging markets. Its operating income in Latin America rose 30% in the third quarter, and sales are up 17% in China and 18% in India. Sales fell 2% in North America, while Pepsi's took a 4% drop. Sales of Coke's noncarbonated drinks flattened out last quarter, but Pepsi's sank 5%. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Shortly after the turn of the century, though, the housing boom began to spin out of control. As incomes and employment in Ireland rose, cheap credit and tax incentives fueled a buying frenzy that pushed up both prices and housing stock: the cost of an average house rose almost three-fold in the decade through 2006, while some 40% of the country's housing was built in the last decade, according to Brian Devine, an economist at Dublin-based stockbrokers NCB. At the Grange, a swish 11-acre (4.5 ha) development in Dublin, realtors sold 15 luxury apartments a week...
...enjoyed the myriad of food and drink available. “We have beer, wine, a John Harvard bar mitzvah mazel tov cake, and much more. And it’s all kosher, of course!” said Silverman. Partygoers Brenda C. Cohen ’10 and Rose M. Ruback ’10, both in high heels and taking a break from the dance floor, discussed the success of their first Hillel party. “I think it’s a cute idea for a party,” said Cohen...
...last shining moments of a dearly loved star—in the case of “Soul Men,” comedy king Bernie Mac. The death of the lead actor threatens to overtake much of the film’s content, unintentionally confining it to the rose-colored domain of a tribute; a funeral with popcorn and sticky floors. This is not to say that movies with recently departed stars are only well-received for this reason. “Dark Knight,” for example, is a film of such magnitude that it would have been...
...completely without sense—”Young men will do’t if they come to’t. By Cock, they are to blame!”—there was no time. It would have to be now. Her thoughts dissolved as she rose from the ground. She heard song wafting through the trees and did not know whether to attribute the music to passing monks or her own fevered head. She would turn back–No! It would be now ... but how could she even–when all at once Frederick...