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...model compared to the Coop’s,” Yagan said. “I think that more and more people are going to be asking themselves when they think about buying a textbook at the Coop, ‘Why am I paying 20 or 30 extra bucks to wait in line...
...extraordinary situation as if there was no tomorrow," says spokesman Szymon Szemberg. "It's like pennies from heaven. Nobody can really blame you for stuffing your pockets, but you shouldn't adjust your lifestyle according to this." Szemberg says increased ticket sales and sponsorship are unlikely to cover the extra cost of the players. Can this reunion last past the NHL lockout? Russian hockey legend Alexei Kasatonov, who now trains teams in New York City, seems to think so. "If a salary ceiling is introduced, then you'll see that the majority of the NHL's Russian players will stay...
...from adolescence to adulthood, but today there is a new, intermediate phase along the way. The years from 18 until 25 and even beyond have become a distinct and separate life stage, a strange, transitional never-never land between adolescence and adulthood in which people stall for a few extra years, putting off the iron cage of adult responsibility that constantly threatens to crash down on them. They're betwixt and between. You could call them twixters...
...significantly since the late 1990s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To compensate, a lot of twixters go back to school for graduate and professional degrees. Swann, for example, is planning to head back to business school to better his chances in the insurance game. But piling on extra degrees costs precious time and money and pushes adulthood even further into the future...
...bonus every month. It is self-funding, so that if a store doesn't perform better, the bonus goes to zero. Now we pay out bonuses to an average of 70% of the hourly workers a month. People making eight bucks an hour can get $2 to $3 extra on every hour they work...