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These respectable but hardly astounding numbers underplay a few other retail realities. One: a good restaurant will not only draw customers to the store, but will also keep them there - maybe long enough to shop for something more substantial than a plate of tuna carpaccio. "Each of our restaurants has a regular clientele who come back again and again for the Harrods experience," says Estafanous. Two: the opportunities for cross-promotion are plentiful. "We're doing a promotion of foods from France's Languedoc region, so I plan to put some of the cheeses on the menu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

These respectable but hardly astounding numbers underplay a few other retail realities. One: a good restaurant will not only draw customers to the store, but will also keep them there - maybe long enough to shop for something more substantial than a plate of tuna carpaccio. "Each of our restaurants has a regular clientele who come back again and again for the Harrods experience," says Johnston. Two: the opportunities for cross-promotion are plentiful. "We are doing a special promotion of foods from the Languedoc region in France, so I plan to put some of the cheeses on the menu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

Since the very public tiff, Seton has tried to underplay the incident, dubbing it a misunderstanding and emphasizing a subsequent reconciliation...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politics Proves Seton-Redmond Undoing | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...explore. Malkovich's is the performance of a brave oddball genius; he plays himself as an effete, monstrous perv, the perfect centerpiece for a film about the insanity of pretension. First-time director Spike Jonze, a longtime music video artiste, has filmed it with collaborator Lance Acord to underplay the fantastic elements of the storyline and accentuate the dirty realness of the images; the plot is deeply surreal, but the setting is today's world, crazy as it actually...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Insane in the Brain | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...chance to put it away but didn't," Murphy said. "I'm not going to underplay it. It's somewhat devastating from an emotional standpoint...

Author: By Cathy Tran, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Blows Win at Cornell | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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