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Some Goliaths have stumbled by getting hooked on growth and expanding far afield from their core business. Sears took its eye off retailing in the 1980s to venture into stocks and bonds and real estate. As Sears diversified, highly focused retailers ate its bread and butter. Wal-Mart offered low prices, while Nordstrom boasted personal service. Now, with its flagship Sears stores in trouble, the company is getting back to basics by selling its Dean Witter brokerage house and most of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm. Sears is not the only respected name to get burned in the financial...
...Harvard Model United Nations hosted its 40th conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, drawing student delegates both from around the United States and from countries as far afield as India, Singapore and Hong Kong, for the four-day simulation...
...student wants to look at this from an interdisciplinary perspective," Waters says, there are "very natural places to concentrate and then go far afield and study ethnicity as your subject...
...tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin and Togo...
...rental firms may come out the best, in part because they are less vulnerable to bargain shoppers. Many Americans who would otherwise have taken a trip in their own cars this summer have ventured far afield, thanks to the low-priced air tickets, and plan to rent cars. Hertz reservations are already up 25% from last summer, and have doubled in Denver and some other popular cities. Hardest hit are travel agents, who earn their commissions based on costs, and nearly all components of their business are operating at lower price levels. Some predict wave after wave of fare...