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...though Harvard coasted to an eventual 14-point victory against Columbia (2-19, 0-8), the Crimson went cold in the second half and suffered a scare when its 23-point lead shrank...
...with her as he quietly stalked her when she was still vital. Now he chatters endlessly to her--mostly about music, plays and movies, including an erotic silent film, brilliantly concocted by Almodovar, in which a tiny, shrunken man is seen traversing the nude body of the lover who shrank...
...others could be given a face-lift. But rebuilding the company's formerly sizzling burger business in the U.S., which accounts for half its $40 billion in global sales, will be much more difficult. In July and August, revenues at its U.S. stores open for at least 12 months shrank 2.7% from the year before. The company has suffered declining profits for six of the past seven quarters and just lowered its earnings expectations for 2002. Wall Street's indigestion over the news pushed McDonald's once dependable blue-chip stock down to a seven-year low, helping sink...
...others could be given a face-lift. But rebuilding the company's formerly sizzling burger business in the U.S., which accounts for half its $40 billion in global sales, will be much more difficult. In July and August, revenues at its U.S. stores open for at least 12 months shrank 2.7% from the year before. The company has suffered declining profits for six of the past seven quarters and just lowered its earnings expectations for 2002. Wall Street's indigestion over the news pushed McDonald's once dependable blue-chip stock down to a seven-year low, helping sink...
...among its traditional aficionados in southern Europe, it is winning new converts among their beer-drinking northern neighbors. Last year, Britain accounted for nearly a quarter of France's exports. But although the British wine market has been expanding regularly for the past decade, France's share of it shrank from 33% in 1995 to 26% last year. Meanwhile, the New World's share rose from 15% to 37%, more than half of it from Australia. The prospect of being marginalized in one of the world's few growth markets has convinced the French that they need a shake...