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...Radioheads away from a musical New Orleans. Many record-company lifers were stung by the rejection of a band on a decade-long run of excellence, but the real damage could stem less from Radiohead's determination to go it alone than from its "stadium sound at museum pricing" scheme. "That's the interesting part of all this," says an American hip-hop producer. "Radiohead is the best band in the world. If you can pay whatever you want for music by the best band in the world, why would you pay $13 or 99? for music by somebody less...
Thanks to smaller portion sizes, European citizens eat healthy, “diet-sized” servings without feeling like they’re depriving themselves. Americans should be able to do the same. When food suppliers offer small, high-quality amounts of food with the right marketing scheme, it’s a win-win situation: customers drop weight, and restaurateurs pick up a profit...
...sure if I sat down and tried it, it would be fun. But it’s something I’ve never tried,”—a sentiment that could be said about WoW. After all, in the scheme of things, a flying mount and a Muggle aren’t as different as one might think.Just don’t start trading cards, cause that would be weird...
...acceptable only in limited situations - for example, "if they address a well-defined market failure." The Commission has on several occasions approved state aid when it determines that market forces are failing to provide a region with broadband. In February it okayed a publicly-funded fiber-and-wireless broadband scheme in North Yorkshire in the U.K. because the area was underserved by private industry...
...ndez in 2015 and so on, like a couple alternating driving duty on a long road trip across the pampas. "Some fear they've simply concocted a new form of Latin caciquismo," or protracted chieftain rule, says Argentine political writer Sylvina Walger. Fernàndez denies any dynastic scheme. "I suggest you look at the U.S.," she says. "If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency next year, the country will be ruled by two families for a quarter-century...