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...club as Shore was out of them. She had helped many of them by lending them money, even giving some places to stay. Plus, no one wanted to antagonize the woman who was the gatekeeper for their show-biz dreams. But after Shore opened a second, larger showroom at her club, where she paid big-time headliners?but not the younger comics who also appeared there?the comedians rebelled...
...area and another one down the coast in La Jolla, she had started a college concert tour featuring comics from the Comedy Store and signed a creative-consultant deal with ABC to develop TV projects. She had expanded her original club as well, opening a second showroom, dubbed the Main Room, where she intended to feature (and pay for) top comics from Vegas...
...years of combat, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the French Air Force hasn't bought all the Rafale jets it promised," says Andrew Brookes, military analyst for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "It's like buying a car that no one has bought from a showroom." For the same reason, France has been squeezed out of the arms industry's hottest contest underway - a $10-billion deal to overhaul India's Air Force, with 126 new combat jets. Military analysts believe India will choose between Russia...
Cloth seats or leather? Sunroof or spoiler? Walk into any auto dealership to buy a new car, and you'll be offered a multitude of options. If it's a BMW you're buying, however, there's a twist: you can walk out of the showroom and change your mind later. Perhaps you'd really prefer the poplar interior trim to the brushed aluminum. Or maybe those retractable headlight washers would be useful after all. Your BMW dealer will be happy to oblige with as many changes as you care to make, until a cutoff point: six days before your...
...notes. Among the changes: transfer manufacturing and storage from Mexico to lower-cost China, update marketing, reduce the number of styles and customers, and dump millions of outdated inventory. In addition, the team recommended consolidating company functions in Columbus by replacing the New York City sales office with a showroom and shuttering the San Antonio operations center. The plan also called for eliminating swaths of management, including 13 of 23 vice presidents. The CEO balked, but the board bucked its leader and asked Von Lehman to become interim...