With only 13 minutes remaining Sylla was first to the rebound when Maloney's curling free-kick from the edge of the box struck Main's right-hand post.
Snowstorms on the US east coast and Christmas Eve falling on Friday - one of the main evenings for movie-going in North America - did not help box office performance, analysts say.
The company's main product, a mushroom-growing kit, is a cardboard box that houses a plastic bag filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spawn.
It also has become a symbol of our present cultural divide, its shoppers derided on websites, its big-box stores accused of having killed small-town Main Streets, its efficiency and pricing studied by academics.
Aetna tested the software of the three main real-time on-line training suppliers for six months (see box).
The big-box stores are backing a coalition called the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which is leading efforts to change sales-tax laws in more than a dozen states including Texas and California.
One day--maybe not next year or in five years, but eventually--the Big Mac will flatline in the U.S. The evidence: In the past four years McDonald's has averaged only 1% annual same-store sales growth, trailing the 4% average for its main burger rivals, Burger King, Wendy's and Jack-in-the-Box.
The effort, led by senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), could finally resolve what has been an increasingly ugly battle among on-line mega-retailers such as Amazon.com, big box stores such as Best Buy, local Main Street retailers, and state tax collectors.
Eric Hughes, a cryptology expert with Simple Access, an electronic-commerce consulting firm, conducted his own experiment: at a technical conference, he issued a roll of pennies to every participant and explained that there was a one-cent charge, payable into a box beside the door, each time anyone entered the main room.
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