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Ship owners have learned to protect profits even with soft demand. Ships have become bigger, and "economies of scale really work" on cruises, says John Maxwell, a leisure-industry analyst at Merrill Lynch in New York City. Ways of extracting extra money from passengers have become more sophisticated, like TV sets that allow gambling from one's stateroom and premium restaurants that charge a supplement. Driscoll estimates that Carnival makes 20% of its revenues from onboard charges...
...Rewarding Growth Police in northern India are being offered an extra 50 cents per month to sport a moustache, after research showed that officers with the facial hair were taken more seriously...
...course, there's a price to be paid for the convenience: the MP-XP7230 doesn't come with the highest technical specifications. So don't expect superfast chips or extra-fat memory. But it will allow you to send e-mails, surf the Net, work on a few documents and do some undemanding graphic chores while you're between hotel rooms - which is all most business travelers want from their laptop. It's also equipped with an internal wireless LAN module, letting you check your messages or log on wherever there is a hot spot instead of having to plug...
...would be how to ensure that J-Term classes were of the same standards as term-time classes, and not regarded as a joke, as has been the case at other schools who have the 4-1-4 schedule. Unless required to, few professors would care to shoulder the extra workload of a month-long class, especially if planning it cut into the teaching demands of the Fall semester. Without attracting the quality classes that the true semesters do, a J-Term would likely offer cast-off courses—filling classrooms with dispirited junior professors forced to teach...
...officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...