While serious bartenders tend to assemble their tools piecemeal, we layfolk often fall for the convenience of bar-in-a-box type sets.

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When that bubble popped, Wall Street wailed for help, and the Fed fatefully lowered its bar twice this fall in response.

FORBES: Tragic?

None of the big accountancy firms wants churn rates to fall too far, if only to keep the performance bar high.

ECONOMIST: Talent management

His approach was harder to pull off: raise the bar, create a zone of privacy, don't fall into the trap of trying to prove a negative.

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When full construction is completed later this fall, there will also be a 200-seat restaurant, a wine bar and an events space.

FORBES: Wine And Food

The brains behind Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law will bring his latest legal drama, Raising the Bar, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben and Kaczmarek, to the cable outlet this fall.

FORBES: TNT Is Raising The Bar