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...hides, enough to keep the club chairs rolling for the next eight months. Result: 97% of the company's orders arrive on time. Gold limits his business to a selection of high-volume accounts on which he can lavish personal attention. About five years ago, he deliberately reduced his slate of buyers from 72 to 48; in the subsequent year, his business increased almost 50%, and since then his work force has more than doubled. "Joe Schmoe's company can knock off our style," he boasts, "but they can't reproduce our service...
...playoffs are a clean slate for us,” said junior forward Dominic Moore. “They’re a brand new season and a fresh start. Hopefully we’ve gotten all the losing out of our system. It?...
...people," says Ralf Tils, a political scientist at the University of Lüneburg. "At the moment there's a potential for a far-right protest party. But Schill can't control it in all of Germany." In addition to Saxony-Anhalt, Schill's party is putting up a slate of candidates in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. But that election takes place on Sept. 22, the same day as German national elections, and the party could be swamped by national parliamentary campaigns. Another problem for Schill: the crime issue has little impact in eastern Germany, where unemployment is the main issue...
Favorite store in the Square: I doubt she’s into Abercrombie but I wouldn’t doubt that she’s into one of those clothes stores. Not Urban Outfitter, though—too eccentric. I bet she also likes Bob Slate. She could be the type that gets a big kick out of stationery...
...start of a new semester, and with it comes the proverbial clean slate: new professors, new courses, new assignments and new —very expensive— coursepacks. I had never thought photocopying could be so costly, but since arriving here I’ve learned about royalties, the copyright clearinghouse organizations and the legal wrinkles that make our university copy shops the —perhaps unwilling— servants of established publishing houses. It has been an expensive lesson...