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...Pulitzer Prize-winning article in October 2000, David Johnston of The New York Times reported that secret offshore accounts may cost the public more than $70 billion every year. At the time, this represented six cents of every income tax dollar—and the figure has likely gone up since. A follow-up article by Johnston revealed that as many as 2 million Americans may have unreported offshore accounts...
...fact that retailers are dedicating more and more precious floorspace to restaurants suggests that they are tasty money-makers. Selfridges says that 8.5% of its overall revenues of $558 million last year came from food and restaurant sales. Richard Johnston, food and beverage controller at privately owned Harrods, says that restaurants bring in roughly 5% (not including sales in the famous Food Halls) of the store's total revenue. Harvey Nichols' food and restaurant division grossed $24.9 million last year, 14% of the store's overall sales...
...restaurant will not only draw customers to the store, but will also keep them there - maybe long enough to shop for something more substantial than a plate of tuna carpaccio. "Each of our restaurants has a regular clientele who come back again and again for the Harrods experience," says Johnston. Two: the opportunities for cross-promotion are plentiful. "We are doing a special promotion of foods from the Languedoc region in France, so I plan to put some of the cheeses on the menu at the Bar Fromage and offer sandwiches showcasing the ham in Harrods Famous Deli," says Johnston...
From Mass. Hall, where University President Lawrence H. Summers and his top deputies will decide the fate of Harvard’s Allston property, the land across the river is just a bus ride away. The number 66 bus departs from the island between Johnston Gate and the Cambridge Common and continues down JFK St., past the Kennedy School of Government and Eliot House and over the Anderson Bridge...
...know the advice “go away and get some perspective” seems a little glib—and perhaps obvious—but sometimes we forget that life extends beyond Johnston Gate and the Leverett Towers...