Word: rub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar phenomenon happens at Origins, TheBody Shop's Square competition and a "last-minutestore" according to assistant manager DebbieSarita. So far, salt rub is a big hit, and thetrend continues with Origins chocolate candles...
...there lies the rub. Odds are you're already overinvested in the stock of your employer. Credit the explosive growth of 401(k) retirement plans, in which a growing number of participants receive a matching contribution in their employer's stock. In such plans, participants on average hold 54.6% of their assets in their employer's stock and, amazingly, many are raising that allocation even further, the Investment Company Institute reported last Thursday. The proliferation of stock options further skews more and more Americans' holdings toward the stock of their employer. What's more, some of your best ideas...
...rub for American carmakers is that they will not necessarily be the beneficiaries as the number of wealthy boomers expands over the next decade. Experts predict that the gradual drift away from American-made luxury cars toward such European models as Mercedes and BMW will only accelerate. According to Ward's AutoInfoBank, European brands account for more than a third of U.S. luxury-car sales, and Mercedes and BMW are leading with about 10% apiece...
...worst part is, it's really not so bad-at least it wouldn't be if everyone didn't continue to point out to me just how bad it is. Some of my relatives, who smilingly call our fall semester exam system "torture", unintentionally rub salt in an open wound. Most of the friends I've kept from high school are used to my touchiness on this issue by now. They still ask how long I'll be in town for, but they only raise their eyebrows or pat me comfortingly on the back in response. But by then...
...made Papa John's cheeky "better ingredients" claims particularly galling to the Pizza Hut high command. Taking its cue from Pizza Hut's own challenge to customers to find a better pizza, Papa John's twitted its rival for using tomato sauce made from yucky-sounding "remanufactured paste." To rub in more salt, Papa John's called on Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney, who sold the chain to PepsiCo in 1977 and now owns more than 70 Papa John's franchises, to declare in television spots, "Sorry, guys, I found a better pizza." Schnatter professes to be delighted that...