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"The campaign was designed to give the impression that Beverly Hills is not expensive, but the result is to say that Beverly Hills has something for poor people," said Laura Segal, a spokeswoman for the Rodeo Drive Committee, a group of 26 merchants in the Chamber of Commerce. "It says that business in Beverly Hills and on Rodeo Drive is bad and stores are groping for customers. That is not true and it is not a clever way to market the city of Beverly Hills."

Segal said the city should not be ashamed that it has a reputation as being expensive. "Our committee presents Rodeo Drive as what it is and what it is is a place to shop for quality merchandise which is expensive," she said.

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"Who wants to go into a store where the only thing you can buy is the cheapest thing?" Segal said. "Rodeo Drive has something for everybody, but there are only so many T shirts and key chains you can buy."

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The bureau fears that the city's reputation may be scaring off potential buyers. "Our publicity that we are so exclusive and so expensive may be working against us," Sawelson said in a recent article in The Times.

Chamber President David Orgell said he was particularly upset about one report that Beverly Hills had become a popular place to look but not buy, because few people were seen carrying shopping bags. "Very few people are aware of the number of people who make purchases and send their packages (by courier) directly to their homes or hotel rooms," he said.

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We had a thousand liters of radioactive water to discharge, so we sent it into the river in the center of the city." He drained his glass. "The director was a brilliant man, but you would sometimes find him inside a bottle. On those occasions he relied on Pasha and me. Anyway, we dumped radioactive water in the middle of Moscow, and no one knew." Arkady was taken aback. He certainly hadn't known. Rina took Timofeyev's glass to the bar, where she paused by a gallery of photographs in which Pasha Ivanov was not dead. Ivanov was not a handsome individual, but a big man full of grand gestures. In different pictures he rappelled off cliffs, trekked the Urals, kayaked through white water. He embraced Yeltsin and Clinton and the senior Bush. He beamed at Putin, who, as usual, seemed to suck on a sour tooth. He cradled a cartier ring setting imitation miniature dachshund like a baby. 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