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...monthly offer short-order evening and weekend study programs on everything from boudoir photography to computer programming to women's body building. There are more than 300,000 adult students in twelve cities coast to coast. A typical course like Belly Dancing meets once a week for only four weeks???just right, says Zanker, for "people who don't have the time or the energy to take long-term courses and who don't care about credits." The price is right too: an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bargains in Short-Order Courses | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Store Animations Beauty companies long for the days when they ran the show: before Sephora rang up 20% of a prestigious brand's French sales and before Boots accounted for 30% of high-end beauty-product sales in Britain. So they vie for coveted weeks???before Christmas, Mother's Day and Father's Day?during which to host in-store events and conduct live product demonstrations. Staking out a corner of the store for a week allows individual companies at least some control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sales-Floor Secrets | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...creative philosophy. He is assuredly an auteur, but not one who uses that status to gain entrée to the talk shows and the rest of celebrity's dubious glories. Nevertheless, Passage has been doing excellent business in the three cities where it has opened in the past two weeks???New York, Los Angeles and Toronto?and it is already being recognized as a major achievement. The New York Film Critics Circle last week named Passage the best movie and Lean the best director of the year. This bodes well not only for commercial success as the film begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Superb Passage to India | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...tell you, John, the thing about all this that has concerned me is dragging the damn thing out. And having it to be the only issue in town. Now the thing to do now, have done. Indict Mitchell and the rest and there'll be a horrible two weeks???a horrible, terrible scandal, worse than Teapot Dome and so forth. And it doesn't have anything to do with Teapot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...their economic and social connection is close and traditional. The statistical position of butter has improved. There are only 800,000 tubs of butter in storage in leading markets as against 1,100,000 tubs year ago. At 27¼¢ per Ib. butter was up 1¢ for two weeks???and famed Speculator Jesse Livermore was thought to be in the butter tubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dollars for Goods | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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