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What about alumni largess? Here too Oxford is playing catch-up to the U.S. With the government trying to wean many cultural and educational institutions from state funding, virtually all of them have started to hustle the same limited group of donors. But middle-class Brits are a tough sell, because tax breaks have not been as generous as in the U.S. and because they graduated when government picked up the whole...
...might be an amusing goal if Tansy ever morphed into Ab Fab's Edina. She doesn't. Instead her shock upon discovering that parts of Vietnam are squalid makes for condescendingly dark comedy. And it would take a more skillful parody to convince readers that Tansy hopes Asia will wean her off drugs...
...thanks to beef, Argentina was a rich nation and granted itself the sort of social-welfare system that rich nations can afford. But like other places with generous endowments of natural resources--think of the oil-rich states of the Middle East--it has never been able to wean itself from a dependence on them; Argentina's main exports today are pretty much the same agricultural commodities they were 100 years ago. In the 1990s, sustained by a stable currency and growing world trade, the country had a chance to build a truly modern economy. It blew it. Argentina, says...
...Mart is trying to wean itself from the weekly circulars, but in the third quarter the company cut back too fast. Some shoppers love those ads, and when the flyers didn't arrive at customers' doors, customers didn't show up at K Mart's stores. At the same time, K Mart cut prices on 38,000 items. Consumers didn't catch on fast enough, but Wal-Mart sure did, and it fired back with a vengeance. "Look at what this CEO has done!" says analyst Hale. "He's tried to go up against Wal-Mart by lowering prices...
Like its chart-topping hard-rock colleagues in Staind, Creed may prove to be a lesson in Rock 101 for the Britney generation, a bland Big Mac to wean the kids off musical Gerber. But after a few bites of what this band serves up, experienced buds will crave more exotic fare--like Pearl...