Word: school
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, it's been a long run," said Duehay, who has served 14 terms on the council and four terms on the School Committee...
...whether a company that already controls 51% of the world's soft-drink market can sustain Ivester's relentless strategy of pumping up sales 7% to 8% a year. "Coke has been this perpetual growth machine," says Ari Ginsberg, a management professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, "and now all this has happened...
...Continent to Britain in search of evidence that the company was offering retailers illegal kickbacks for favored shelf space. That investigation is ongoing. And last month French authorities rejected Ivester's $840 million bid for the Orangina soft-drink business. Observes John Quelch, dean of the London Business School: "The power of global brands may be strong, but they are not strong enough to preclude the need to cultivate [government] relationships at the national level...
Most children are like dandelions; they thrive if given half a chance. Some are more like orchids. They do fine while young enough to be nurtured by loving parents, but wilt as adolescents subjected to peer competition, bullying and rejection, particularly in big high schools. Research shows that while only 10% of children who are born temperamentally "easy" have adjustment problems in elementary school, 70% of those who are "difficult" temperamentally have such problems. And while most fragile children do fine in early childhood, 50% have significant difficulties once they enter adolescence. Then children respond to the influence of peers...
...come cheap. In 1996, Grass shelled out $1.4 billion for a thousand Thrifty PayLess drugstores on the West Coast. Then a year ago, he spent $1.5 billion on PCS Health Systems, a pharmacy-benefit manager that oversees employees' prescription coverage. Even Miller, whose retailing career began in high school as a bottle sorter for a California grocer, admits, "I wouldn't have been able to manage all that...