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...preparatory courses like the Princeton Review and Kaplan are also give wealthier students an unfair advantage, according to Schaeffer. Preparatory courses like these are "steroids to boost test scores," he said...
...preparatory courses like the Princeton Review and Kaplan are also give wealthier students an unfair advantage, according to Schaeffer. Preparatory courses like these are "steroids to boost test scores," he said...
...caviar of automobile brands, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar spent much of the past decade longing for a little meat-and-potatoes appeal. Slumping sales in the U.S. had execs worried, as did the rising popularity of Japanese newcomer Lexus. The haughty Germans and the aristocratic Brits realized that the wealthier baby-boomer set--now in a buying frenzy--was turned off by the companies' stuffy image and limited product line. "Our cars were admired but were perceived as an unattainable icon," concedes Joe Eberhardt, vice president of marketing for Mercedes-Benz North America. "Our problem was, we weren't considered...
...suggests that the old model developed by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan in the early 1920s, which sliced the industry into carefully graded segments and moved consumers up as their income rose, may be headed for extinction. Instead, as automakers lavish more and more attention on a narrower, wealthier band of consumer, the U.S. is moving to a more European marketing model built around sales of luxury cars to the affluent and small, inexpensive shoeboxes on wheels for everyone else...
...study reports that good governments are usually found in countries that are wealthier, Protestant and ethnically homogeneous...