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Cartier, the world-renowned jeweler, last week announced a two-week clearance sale. It was the first ever in the company's glistening history. The sale's goal is to unload about 1,000 items of gold boutique jewelry, the first step in changing the company's marketing strategy...
Flakes Burdened with parer's who compare their SAT scores like golf handicaps, the flakes respond in various ways. Some ostentatiously unload home computers on the first day and effectively guarantee a summer of alienation right there. Others talk only about science fiction, and some boast prodigious drug habits. These are the kids who read the newspapers and know every hatted of the Vietnan War. Many come from Bronx High School of Science, where they win debating trophies or excel at ping pong...
When Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan 2½ years ago, U.S. longshoremen took characteristically direct action. Calling the Soviets "international bully boys," they refused to unload ships bearing Russian cargo. Allied International, a Boston-based importer of Russian wood products, lost money as a result, and the company sued the International Longshoremen's Association. Last week a unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Allied that the I.L.A. had engaged in a boycott that was illegal under federal labor laws designed "to protect neutral parties, the helpless victims of quarrels that do not concern them at all." Allied had been hurt...
Flakes, Burdened with parents who compare their SAT scores like golf handicaps, the flakes respond in various ways. Some ostentatiously unload home computers on the first day and effectively guarantee a summer of alienation right there. Others talk only about science fiction, and some boast prodigious drug habits. These are the kids who read the newspapers and know every battle of the Vietnam War, Many come from Bronx High School of Science, where they win debating trophies or excel at ping pong...
...those markets, it is probably the lowest cost producer in most of those fields, giving it a solid chance to rebound from its current low position. But, no, Harvard held on to it all during its slide, and waited until it just about hit its 52-weeks-low to unload, thus cheating the endowment of a solid profit, and ignoring a chance to make a needed statement about the racist apartheid regime of South Africa...