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...there are $8,000-a-seat passengers in the front and $400-a-seat flyers in the back, the reasoning is that there's got to be a sizable segment of business flyers who wouldn't mind saving thousands and leisure travelers who will pay a little more to get 20-in. (50 cm) seats and tons of legroom and not share space with wailing babies and tour groups. For road warriors, this concept is a no-brainer. "It was a third the price and at least three times the experience, an inverse proportion," notes Mary Egan of the Boston...
...anchored the Today Show—the network’s morning news and talk show—since 1997. Seegars said that Lauer’s experiences interviewing scores of different people and traveling the world for the Today Show’s segment “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” will allow the television personality to speak to seniors about the world outside the Harvard bubble. Yet the choice of a television news personality for the June 3 student-focused celebration left some seniors less than thrilled...
...Tata Troubles While the company seeks to redefine the low end of the market, Tata Motors is struggling with its attempt to gate-crash the luxury-car segment. Last year, the Indian carmaker made auto-industry waves when it spent $2.3 billion to buy Ford Motor's lossmaking Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) business. Since then, demand for luxury vehicles has tanked, sales of Tata Motors other models have softened, and the company faces a looming deadline to refinance $2 billion in loans for the JLR deal. "That's a major cash-flow crunch for them," Jajoo says. The company...
...foreboding and the emotional impact in the final cataclysm does not diminish. The florid effervescence of the rest of the work ends on a genuinely somber and powerfully affective note, hinting at what Boyle might accomplish if all his work could be as tightly constructed as this last segment. Boyle does not shy away from portraying every dimension, and every sordid detail, of his characters. Much is made of how often the characters sweat in the novel. They sweat while driving, lost in the steppes of rural Wisconsin and searching for Wright’s semi-mythical Taliesin. They sweat...
...antitrust law that Beijing enacted last August. In the eyes of foreign investors, that test is now officially a failure. Together, Coke and Huiyuan's combined share of the orange-juice market - itself just a sliver of the overall nonalcoholic-beverage market - would have been around 20%. The segment Huiyuan dominates - undiluted OJ - is for pricier products and is relatively small. Coca-Cola's Minute Maid brand plays in the less expensive, larger segment of the market. (Read a TIME story on Coke...