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...Topshop turn it around? By heading (relatively) upscale. Tired of its reputation for tackiness and losing out to budget chains in the '90s, Topshop's managers decided to stop competing just on price. "The decision was made to create a fashion authority," says Mary Homer, a joint managing director of Topshop who's been at the retailer for 20 years. (Green, a retail entrepreneur with years of experience in various types of businesses, acquired Arcadia in 2002, and helped execute the strategy already under way.) The company now employs 22 of its own designers, up from around a dozen...
...French levels. (The French have their own problems extracting value for money from their hospitals, but at least patients don't need to wait six months for a nonemergency medical procedure.) Both countries have a spending problem: French national debt has quintupled since 1980, while Britain is running a budget deficit equivalent to 3.5% of its GDP, according to Peter Spencer, an economics professor at the University of York. While consumer spending has helped fuel Britain's powerful growth, Spencer says, "the bottom line is that we are all living beyond our means...
...financial and cultural support for a purely leisure-filled later life is drying up. But if you crave opportunities for a flexible job that you will enjoy or volunteer work that makes use of your skills and speaks to your heart, then what's good for the federal budget may be good...
...Jensen Dutcher, general counsel for the Napa Valley schools, says the dress-code case will cost the district at least $50,000 in expenses if it goes to trial, and perhaps "hundreds of thousands" if it's appealed. That's a small piece of the district's $118 million budget, but it "bothers me when that money could be better spent educating students," she says...
...more,” he said. Yesterday’s press release lists a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the draft description estimates EOL’s five-year operating budget at $40 million. However, according to Edwards, eventual expenses for the EOL will be far higher. “We expect it will take between 70 and 100 million dollars to do the full Encyclopedia of Life,” he said. Wilson declined comment for this story...