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...gather round the hearth. "Before, it was tough to know whether a shift of 4[degrees] in temperature made any difference in sales," says Chris Caron, Duraflame's vice president of marketing. "Now we know it can make a tremendous difference." And the company has saved several hundred thousand dollars, Caron notes...
...There are over sixty active vendors right now. But since its inception in 1992, Spare Change has provided an income for more than a thousand people--50 percent of whom have moved onwards and upwards to other jobs and 60 percent of whom secured housing...
...Five thousand Harvard employees--and five thousand of the employees' relatives--are covered by the plan...
According to CFD estimates, Harvard College has spent several hundred thousand dollars over the past several years to improve safety systems in the residence buildings alone...
Suddenly, with the victory of John McCain last week, spin is out and candor is in. In the course of 114 town meetings in New Hampshire, McCain was asked a thousand questions and dodged none. The Senator released every medical record, herpetic lesions and all. The breakup of his first marriage? McCain takes the blame. As to what the biggest mistake of his life was, McCain reminded voters of the Keating Five scandal. George W. Bush blithely cited his trade of Sammy Sosa. McCain's book is a signed confession of his sins--being a spoiled brat at Episcopal High...