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Blockbuster’s Failure: Not Necessarily a Show-Stopper for Rentals

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While it experienced huge growth in the 1980s and 1990s, frustrations with some of its practices—most notably its late-fee system, which Blockbuster ended in 2005 —left a sour taste with many consumers. We kind of made our hay in small and mid-sized cities, but now we’re in Chicago, Detroit, Dallas and a lot of larger cities.”.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Enough with Not Enough

Idea Architects

Im a minimalist at heart but some of the stark decor and geometric furniture (see this chair from a remodeled room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago) is just plain cold and uncomfortable. Its sad that encountering that was such a shock to my system. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3).

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Transportation Group Hopes Annual List Guides Infrastructure Decisions

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ATRI analyzed GPS data from more than 600,000 heavy-duty trucks at 250 locations on the national highway system to produce a congestion impact ranking for each location. highway transportation system,” the report says. Chicago; Louisville, Ky.; The next most congested locations are in Fort Lee, N.J.; Cincinnati; and Los Angeles.