Word: steals
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...that Russians have more money, the firm is focusing on branding and store location. Most employees work entirely on a commission basis. One of the biggest challenges for the company, says co-founder Timur Artemiev, is finding enough good managers. Among the criteria: "They mustn't be lazy or steal." Emerging consumer credit is helping to fuel sales. Credit cards such as Visa or American Express have only taken off in Russia in the past three years, and few Russians yet own one. But stores have increasingly begun offering loan terms to customers. Offering credit was pioneered by M.Video...
...less steel than a conventional frame does. His office buildings also configure space in new ways that give workers more access to light, air and one another. He wants to prove that skyscrapers can be good citizens, not just municipal thugs that hang around on street corners and steal sunlight and energy from the city...
...growth comes at a crucial time. Independent restaurateurs once had a tendency to view one another with suspicion. "Ten years ago, I wouldn't talk to fellow restaurateurs because I thought they'd steal my recipes," says Dine Originals president Don Luria. But hard knocks have turned indie rivals into sympathetic allies. Skyrocketing food, energy and health-care costs have cut into independents' bottom line, while national chains, from Applebee's to Morton's, have been expanding at every price level at the expense of the joint on the corner. According to the NPD Group, traffic share for major...
...this was no small catch. Tunovic was a second-team all-state lineman in New York’s AA classification, and a Binghamton Sun-Bulletin All-Metro selection his senior season, and the chance to steal him away from other Ivy programs was too good to pass up, especially for a team that lost three of its starting offensive linemen to graduation in 2006. And despite the fact that Murphy had not come across Tunovic until late in the recruiting process, the young man had already been admitted on the strength of his academic achievements, removing another barrier...
...attempting to make even attempted copyright violation a crime with a potential 10-year sentence. Our God-given right as readers to as many magnet-school satires as the market will bear is under assault. I vote with whoever first said that good artists borrow and great artists steal...