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...reality is that without any representation on the city council, Jerusalem's tax-paying Arab residents are given short shrift in the allotment of schools, clinics and such basic services as mail delivery and garbage pick-up. Jerusalem's new pragmatic mayor Barkat made his huge fortune mastering the intricacies of cyberspace. He may find that virtual world a cinch compared to Jerusalem's seething complexities. - with reporting by Jamil Hamad and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...
Another key problem for the retailer, which is based in Richmond, Va., and was founded by Samuel S. Wurtzel as a television store in 1949 (it now has about 700 outlets), was basic inventory management. "They had been unable to move their inventory," says Helen Bulwik of New Market Solutions, a retail consultancy in Oakland, Calif. That backlog left the company paralyzed, unable to buy fresh product or pay off its existing debts. Circuit City still owes $118 million to Hewlett-Packard, its largest vendor, plus $116 million to Samsung and $60 million Sony...
...primitive! The actual color separations were done at home by ladies working in their kitchens! Really basic. It had been unchanged since the 1930s. And of course, we didn't even have fax machines. So Alan would have to physically send the script to me. When I started to run low on script, to keep me busy, he put the scripts in a taxi and paid $100 to get the script to me. Nowadays, script's done, send. Art's done, send...
...After eight years of the Bush Administration’s restrictive policies on embryonic stem cell research and shrinking federal support for basic science, scientists said that they are looking forward to seeing the changes that the next four years will bring...
...hope for greater opportunity overall and the lessening of ongoing concerns,” said Wagers. “The NIH budget itself has been shrinking, so it’s not just a problem with stem cells, but with biomedical research and even basic biological research...