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...more responsibly, how long can this attitude last? While retail analysts repeatedly claim that adults will never again consume like they did in prior years, they don't make the same claim about kids. Klinefelter says there's plenty of pent-up demand in the teen sector. Yes, teens aren't spending because of the recession, but that's also because retailers have failed to create a hot new trend. Denim has been the default teen look for the past few years, and nothing has knocked it off its perch. "Once the dominant new fashion trend emerges, teens will rush...
...ironic," she said. "The case they gave me interviewing for the proctoring job was a rape case, and the answer was to do this and do that, and to talk to these people. But now those offices aren't even going to be open...
...those daunting stats aren't enough to get lawmakers thinking about EDs in the context of the debate over health-care reform, two others certainly are: after the state of Massachusetts mandated health insurance for all its citizens, visits to already overcrowded EDs jumped 7% in two years, and ED costs increased 17%, according to data obtained by the Boston Globe. In other words, if any health-reform package expands insurance to cover some or all of the nearly 50 million Americans without it now, EDs are likely to be one of the first places to feel the impact...
...hamburgers. "It stinks," says Bevacqua. "We lose the revenue from food and merchandising, and it costs us more money to restore the golf course. Bad weather takes its toll on us." Merchandising and food make up about 30% of the USGA's revenues from the Open, and when people aren't buying ridiculously overpriced items - the $66 golf shirt, the $9 card that details the yardage on each hole - that isn't good for business. Though at least the umbrellas sold...
...security police tell the Bureau of Justice, 'These lawyers don't listen; they keep doing these kinds of cases,' " says Jiang Tianyong, a Beijing human-rights lawyer. "We say this is what's permitted under the law. But they say we have no right to argue that these defendants aren't guilty. So when it comes time for our annual assessment, our licenses aren't renewed...