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...airline food, regardless of the quality, used to cost passengers nothing. In a 2009 Zagat airline survey, only 19% of respondents said they would be willing to pay for snacks on domestic flights. George Hobica of Airfarewatchdog shares their reluctance. "I went on Amtrak's Acela train and had this lime mousse that was so good, I tried to make it at home," he says. "If they can do it well, why can't airlines...
...Clásico,” as the match is called. Whoever won would jump ahead in the Spanish league title hunt, as the teams were tied in the league standings going into the game. The game would also pit an in-form Ronaldo—a player that cost Real a $130 million transfer fee alone—against Barcelona’s current golden boy, Lionel Messi, who was just coming off a four-goal performance against English powerhouse Arsenal Football Club...
...Yankees, from making more of an effort to recruit and satisfy expensive star athletes instead of focusing on more foundational efforts. The failures of these efforts are often blamed on the once-touted athletes themselves, but instead, the overall strategy should be questioned. The “cost of winning” is a facetious phrase; seeing the success of a sports team in terms of money, whether dollars or euros, is simplistic...
Simple steps such as running the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems only when buildings are heavily occupied have contributed to significant cost savings, Henriksen adds...
...time unavoidably prioritize work for classes in which they will be receiving a grade. Although we have no doubt that many of the students Malan hopes to attract with the policy would be intellectually motivated to learn the material, we question whether they would do so at the cost of success in their other classes. Those enrolled would undoubtedly conduct such an analysis as the term went on. CS 50’s value comes from the sheer number of hours one invests in learning the material. Thus, allowing most students to receive a satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade—thereby incentivizing...