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...Furthermore, a few naming-rights deals for facilities are up in the air. New football stadiums will open next season in Dallas and at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, where the New York Giants and Jets play. Will companies pay the same sweet premium they would have, say, a year ago for the right to attach their name to one of these new venues? Very doubtful. AIG, the embattled insurance giant, has sponsored the U.S. Davis Cup team since 1999, an agreement that ends this year: if the company hadn't floundered, odds are it would have renewed the deal...
...town is a state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant built by the German utility Steag, which alone provides about 5% of Turkey's electricity. When it started operations in 2003, the $1.5 billion plant was the biggest single foreign investment in the country. In nearby Isdemir, a giant steel mill built in the 1970s by Russian engineers using Soviet technology is undergoing massive renovation. Some 18,000 workers used to produce just over 2 million tons of steel here; now about 6,000 people produce almost three times as much - and the plant consumes less energy...
...wants to lose face by officially going on sale in October because it's unheard of, but in-store most labels are offering 30% to 50% off. That's a first for us. We would normally never go on sale before January." Smaller local boutiques, tucked away between the giant stores, are already openly discounting designer jeans, imported footwear and fine cashmere by as much...
...full-time professors at Stanford—it has shaken up the market for legal academics. Brian R. Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who publishes the blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, called Harvard “the sleeping giant of legal education,” whose recent faculty expansion has forced its competitors to reconsider their hiring strategies. With a $1.85 billion endowment bolstered by a recent capital campaign that brought in over $450 million, the Law School’s war chest has enabled it to target tenured professors...
...campus planner. “It’s part of the neighborhood, and the neighborhood is part of the educational experience.”Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger noted that Lesley’s construction “is easier to absorb than a giant science building” and would thus make opposition less likely to gel. The neighbors, he said, “are not threatened by Lesley yet.”But that’s not to say that having students live side-by-side with residents eliminated problems—indeed...