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...start in the late 1980s, mainly in the restaurant and retail businesses. There's even a trade group, the Mystery Shoppers Providers Association (MSPA), representing about 1 million secret shoppers and 150 member companies with names like Guest Check and Service Sleuth. The hospitality industry is new turf for these shopping-mall snoops, and increasingly, secret shoppers like Pokodner have become secret travelers, checking up on the world's vacation spots...
...administration. In my nation- building course this semester, we discussed the transition from feudalism to absolutism. The logic of absolutist state-building basically came down to this: put one guy in charge and generate a hierarchy of technocrats, each with his or her own specialized turf, below the leader...
Sometimes even the best teams can suffer shocking defeats on home turf. Manchester United discovered that last week when Malcolm Glazer, a U.S. sports magnate, took a majority stake in the publicly traded company that owns the famous English franchise. It was the climax of a protracted battle that has pitted Glazer, who owns U.S. football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, against Man U's board and thousands of its fans. But Glazer, who already owned almost 29% of the team's stock, persuaded two Irish racing millionaires to sell him their 29% stake for $5.60 per share. Several other...
This year, though, Radcliffe has yet to best either of its two sworn enemies. The Knecht Cup witnessed the Tigers ascending the podium yet again, while the Badgers grabbed the second slot. Two weeks ago, the Black and White met up with Princeton on its own turf, but Princeton edged out the first varsity by seven seconds...
Standing in at shortstop for Harvard was regular centerfielder Matt Vance. Zak Farkes, the Crimson shortstop, patrolled the turf in center...