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	Bruce Ratner's Grand Plan for Brooklyn
		But Ratner became a household name last fall, when he unveiled his master plan not only to rebuild a shabby section of Brooklyn but also to reinvigorate the entire borough.
		Although Ratner, who rarely speaks to the press and declined to be interviewed for this story, is a member of the Cleveland family that built the development firm Forest City Enterprises into a $1 billion publicly traded company, he never planned to work in real estate.
		Ratner's confidence in the outcome of his Atlantic Yards proposal is evident in his hardball pursuit of the basketball franchise.
	nreionline.com /mag/real_estate_bruce_ratners_grand (1364 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ratner's Star: Books: Don DeLillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		ratner's star is an excellent look at a period in the life of billy, a boy of (it would seem) unequalled brilliance.
		Ratner's Star can perhaps be best described as DeLillo does Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." It focuses on a group of quirky scientists and mathemeticians trying to decipher what they believe are messages from extraterrestrials, and the crazy "adventures" they have in the process.
	www.amazon.ca /Ratners-Star-Don-DeLillo/dp/0394400836 (1473 words)

	Signet Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gerald Ratner made possibly the most famous gaffe in twentieth century British business when he explained to a major business conference that the reason why one of his products was so cheap was that it was "total crap".
		Nearly 300 Ratners branded stores were closed between January 1992 and May 1994 as the group went through a financial restructuring.
		Ratner 'resigned' in November 1992 and the group changed its name to Signet Group plc in September 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ratners (292 words)

	.:DANEgerus Weblog:. Colonic Conservatism for those whose ignorance tilts Left Comments Page
		Led by the Ratners, Forest City is a player in major developments on both coasts (and many places in between), including some of the hottest hot spots in eminent domain seizures.
		The Ratners are proposing to turn it into a condo-shopping-basketball-arena complex; Bruce Ratner of Forest Park is the owner of the New Jersey Nets.
		The Ratners are lobbying the city and state of New York to exercise eminent domain powers to seize properties in Brooklyn for this project.
	www.danegerus.com /weblog/Comments.asp?svComment=11879 (871 words)

	Ratner hopes to sparkle again - 17 May 2005
		Gerald Ratner, the former retail tycoon responsible for one of the most famous gaffes in corporate history, is hoping to relaunch his career on the internet.
		The Ratner name was once a fixture on British High Streets, underpinning a nationwide chain of cut-price jewellers.
		But Mr Ratner effectively killed the company in 1991 with a speech to the Institute of Directors, when he joked that one of his firm's products was "total crap", and boasted that some of its ear rings were "cheaper than a prawn sandwich".
	www.mycustomer.com /cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=131447 (379 words)

	Amazon.com: Ratner's Star: Books: Don DeLillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ratner's Star is mediocre DeLillo (which is still great!) for those not interested in math and science -- and perhaps top DeLillo for those who are interested in math or physics.
		ratner's star is an excellent look at a period in the life of billy, a boy of (it would seem) unequalled brilliance.
		Ratner's Star can perhaps be best described as DeLillo does Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." It focuses on a group of quirky scientists and mathemeticians trying to decipher what they believe are messages from extraterrestrials, and the crazy "adventures" they have in the process.
	www.amazon.com /Ratners-Star-Don-DeLillo/dp/0679722920 (2037 words)

	World Tribune.com: Lev Navrozov: Homeland Insecurity: New book relegates nanotechnology threat to science fiction
		This PC convention delivers the Ratners from the need to discuss the role of nanotechnology in “new wars,” that is, in global-scale terrorism.
		The Ratners meant to demonstrate that molecular nanoweapons “are either impossible or are at best in our distant future.” Some German and American scientists demonstrated honestly and more competently that nuclear weapons were impossible in our near future.
		Now, the Ratners meant to demonstrate that the non-emergence of molecular nano weapons (except in “our distant future”) is an absolute certainty, which only sci-fi can dispute.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2004/lev2_13.html (1377 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Straight talker still cutting the crap
		Ratner says a deal was nearly done with one well-known store, although he refuses to say which one, but the chairman of the store pulled it at the last minute because of "the speech".
		Immediately afterwards, Ratner consoled himself in exercise, regularly cycling to and from London from his house in Berkshire.
		Ratner says his best days are Mondays when customers have been round the shops, seen what they want, and then go online to buy it cheaper.
	business.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1750712006 (1476 words)

	Vandal torches flag at S.F. home / Noe Valley couple had wanted to show sympathy, unity
		The Ratners, who met while working for Rolling Stone magazine in New York in the 1970s, are upset that anyone would torch the flag.
		For the Ratners' next-door neighbor, Tony Cremeans, a 53-year-old Vietnam veteran who received the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement more than three decades ago, the flag burning was a terrible thing.
		He was visiting the Ratners on Thursday night when a neighbor who had never met them came over and gave them his flag, saying he would buy himself a new one.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/13/MN235049.DTL&type=printable (578 words)

	Also, Bruce Ratner's Penis Has Not Gotten Any Larger - Gawker
		Bruce Ratner is happily bulldozing his way through Brooklyn, molding Marty Markowitz's borough to his whims.
		Ratner's name to at least one prominent Brooklyn resident....
		So far, the only public evidence of the alleged anti-Ratner e-mail campaign is a fragment of a disparaging email purportedly sent on March 3 by the developer to the president of Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy....
	www.gawker.com /news/bruce-ratner/also-bruce-ratners-penis-has-not-gotten-any-larger-160370.php (319 words)

	IT-Director.com - Ratner to sell jewellery online
		Ratners Online is expected to be launched at some time in the not too distant future, following a reverse takeover of DPA Investments, which yielded £876,000.
		Add to this the £3.7 million proceeds from the sale of a health club in Oxfordshire and the fact that Ratner is seeking another £4 million in other funding and you end up with a reasonable start-up sum.
		Apparently, Ratner believes that people will go to his site because of his name rather than avoiding it in the same way that they did with his shops.
	www.it-director.com /article.php?id=2858 (538 words)

	RLI Feature Carphone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, when it struck, Ratners was particularly vulnerable — in the late 1980s, the business had been extremely acquisitive, buying up a number of smaller operators, leaving it over-expanded and very highly geared as the economy fell off a cliff in the early 1990s.
		These factors were already taking root long before Ratner’s ill-advised comments — in effect, the business would probably have suffered a similar fate regardless of what he said.
		Ratners was instrumental in bring jewellery to the masses, epitomised by the low-priced, hollow nine-carat gold products.
	www.rli.uk.com /features/features/Ratner/Ratner.htm (372 words)

	A Politically Correct Book About Nanotechnology Disarms the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If those who lived in the mid-19th century had been told that ere long it would be possible to install a tiny microphone wherever a suspect lives or suspects congregate, they would have predicted that common crime and terrorism in the conventional sense of the word would be over.
		But for the Ratners, “science fiction” is not Wells, but “thrillers,” hackwork for entertainment, the opposite of science.
		His guilt is his insistence that, apart from all its benefits (which he described in his seminal study of 1986), nanotechnology may lead to the development of weapons of unprecedented global-scale destruction, and this is not politically correct.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/2/13/100502.shtml (1497 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ratner's at Epinions.com
		Ratners has decided that the benefits of keeping Lansky's (their after-hours club) open on Friday nights, and bringing back swing dancing outweigh the benefits of being Kosher.
		As others have already mentioned, Ratners is the ONLY place to go for traditional Jewish food, in an authentic turn of the century setting.
		Ratners is a big part of NYC Kosher tradition, and it's going to be sad to see them go.
	www.epinions.com /rest-review-7AFC-23694B7-38CE4C12-prod3 (213 words)

	Ratners try, try, try try again for casino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Now the Ratners and their coast-to-coast development company, Forest City Enterprises, are as close as they've ever been to getting into the gambling business.
		The $1 billion proposal in Station Square seems optimistically massive, and it is, given that the company essentially hopes to fabricate a new city neighborhood, perhaps as populous as Manchester or Troy Hill, but it's dwarfed by one of the company's proposals in New York City.
		Bruce Ratner, Forest City Ratner's owner and a cousin of Forest City's Cleveland boss, Albert Ratner, had orchestrated a $300 million buy-in of the New Jersey Nets.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06029/646199-85.stm (1464 words)

	Guardian \| Ratners returns with online brand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mr Ratner said he had chosen to retain the name because a survey revealed it was still the country's most recognised jewellery retail brand.
		Today, Mr Ratner said he was eager to revive the Ratners identity despite the link to the remark of a decade ago: "It would be nice to get the Ratners brand up and running and successful again."
		Mr Ratner, who recently sold a health club venture he established in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, for £3.7m, said he was confident the internet was the right place to launch a new business.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4422447-104917,00.html (392 words)

	No Land Grab: Ratner's brother and partner defends detainees' rights, but is silent on eminent domain
		Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, holds a copy of a report detailing the experiences of former Guantanamo detainees Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, and Rhuhal Ahmed, while addressing reporters during a news conference in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004.
		The report claims that the men were held in open cages in the sweltering Cuban heat, with scorpions and snakes roaming the cells, and that they were forced through brutal treatment to make false confessions.
		Brooklynites' beef with Michael Ratner is that while he tirelessly fights for the constitutional rights of detainees in Guantanamo, he continues to condone, with his NJ Nets investment, the threatened abuse of the 5th Amendment (eminent domain) to quell property owner's 1st Amendment rights (free speech).
	www.nolandgrab.org /archives/2004/12/ratners_brother.html (258 words)

	Nanotechnology: Reviews and Comments
		The Ratners present a balanced view of some of the possibilities that nanotechnology has already created and may create in the future, without the hype.
		The Ratners successfully cut through the hype surrounding the topic, while stimulating thoughts on many possibilities of the technology, especially in the defense and medical arenas.
		Mark Ratner is an internationally recognized expert in the field of nanotechnology with an in-depth knowledge in the area.
	www.nanotechbook.com /media.php (751 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Legal threat tarnishes Ratner comeback
		Signet, as Ratners was rebranded in 1993, has begun legal action to protect its rights to the name.
		Firstly, Mr Ratner believes that Signet has, by failing to use the Ratners name, lost the rights to own it, and he has applied to the Patent Office to recover it.
		And secondly, investors in Ratners Online believe the success of the business is largely dependent on the use of the Ratners brand which has been restored, rather than tarnished, by time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/2073123.stm (503 words)

	Signet Group PLC -- Company History
		Ratners expanded strongly through the 1970s, and by the end of that decade the chain had grown to more than 150 stores.
		By then, Ratners had been losing money, in part because of its expansion moves, but also because of increasing competitive pressure, particularly from a new breed of discount jewelers that had been encroaching on the company's traditionally middle to low-end market.
		Ratner went on, judging another popular product, an imitation book, as being "in the worst possible taste." Ratner's comments, which might have been shrugged off in a better economic climate, raised a furor among British consumers.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Signet-Group-PLC-Company-History.html (2299 words)

	WHAT NEXT? Utopia or the End of Ideology - NI 213 - Briefly...
		Ratners, the giant British chain of jewellery stores, have agreed to stop selling jewellery made with South African gold.
		Ratners are the largest British retailers of gold jewellery with 31 per cent of the market and recently acquired a large retail chain in the US.
		Until the Ratners decision almost all gold jewellery sold in Britain was made with South African gold.
	www.newint.org /issue213/briefly.htm (990 words)

	The New York Observer Real Estate: Ratner's "Downsizing" Could Upsize Office Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While the big news Friday was Bruce Ratner scaling down his Atlantic Yards proposal (at least compared to the specs submitted to the state last fall), it turns out the revised plan has another wrinkle: it is not one plan but two.
		And even though the Ratner press release acts as if there is only one proposal on the table and that proposal has the same specs as Variation A, the scoping document treats both variations as equals.
		The press release states that Ratner will keep the same number of affordable apartments (2,250) even though the project shrank by 5 percent since the fall.
	therealestate.observer.com /2006/04/ratners-downsizing-could-upsize-office-space.html (462 words)

	Ratner’s gift puts Chicago Initiative over $1.5 billion
		Ratner said the gift to the Smart Museum is an appropriate memorial to his wife.
		Ratner added that he is impressed by the way the memory of his friend and former classmate at the Law School, Harry Kalven, is carried on through the work of Geoffrey Stone, who holds the Harry Kalven Jr.
		Ratner is a senior partner at the law firm of Gould & Ratner in Chicago.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /060413/ratner.shtml (1171 words)

	The Ratner Museum
		Construction and endowment of the Museum are being funded by Dennis and Phillip Ratner and a group of family and friends who chose to join this under-taking at the inception.
		Ratner also spent time in Israel using sculpture, painting and graphics to design more than 250 works of art relating to the Hebrew Bible.
		Ratner has degrees from Pratt Institute and American University, and for 23 years taught in Washington, D.C. area public schools.
	www.ratnermuseum.com /?page=ratners (239 words)

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		Gerald Ratner, who resigned from national high-street retailer Ratners after infamously referring to one of his products as ‘crap’ over a decade ago, has established the new retail business.
		Ratner wished to capitalize on his name, but the Signet Group disputed his preferred website name — Ratners Online.
		Ratner has entered into a joint venture with India’s SBandT International — a jewelry manufacturer that will supply goods.
	www.tacyltd.com /Research_Materials_Full.asp?id=53021 (196 words)

	Amazon.com: Ratner's Star V495: Books: Don Delillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		The fundamental problem with Ratner's Star is Delillo's insistence with bombarding the reader in a deluge of menancingly technical language.
		Sure, he writes beautifully and as ever, his language is precise but it appears that in an attempt to gain recognition, he has forgotten the purpose of writing and instead decided to exhibit his skills with the English langauge.
	www.amazon.com /Ratners-Star-V495-Don-Delillo/dp/0394744950 (2097 words)

	Ratner's restaurant for sale - Brief Article Real Estate Weekly - Find Articles
		Ratner's a generational draw of gastronomic reputation will be closing at the end of the year.
		The decision to sell the Ratners portfolio, as it is known, is purely business says Robert Harmatz, co-owner of the properties and restaurant.
		Harmatz says Ratners is the City's oldest kosher restaurant, as well as its oldest family-owned restaurant of any type.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_1_49/ai_90470986 (366 words)

	How a diamond geezer got on his bike and invented himself a new Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		In the dark days and months after he was drummed out of the Ratners jewellery empire for calling one of his products "total crap", even waking up was a struggle some mornings for the man with Britain's biggest mouth.
		With Johnnie, 14, the youngest of his four children, bundled off to catch his school bus, Mr Ratner has breakfast at his home in Bray, of Fat Duck fame, and lazes around until it is time for his daily bike ride.
		Mr Ratner is working on plans to mount a bid for H Samuel, the jewellery chain that was once part of his Ratners empire.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060805/ai_n16663384 (949 words)

	The same, but different \| October 1, 2004 \| Telecommunications Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There was once a Mr Ratner who told the Institute of Directors and, by extension, the UK press, that his goods were ‘crap’.
		Ratners had 2,500 shops, 25,000 employees and profits of £121 m before Gerald Ratner described one of the chain’s sherry decanters as, ehrm, less than optimal in that very public speech.
		The Ratners’ experience demonstrates that there is value in a brand, if only the value of perception.
	www.telecommagazine.com /International/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_572 (1898 words)

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