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...nation’s capital to watch the Harvard men’s basketball team try its hand at upsetting No. 13 Georgetown, former Crimson Sports Chair Loren Amor and I made a pit stop in New York City to watch another Ivy team take a shot at a Big East opponent...
Entering the 2009-’10 season, media outlets across the country unanimously agreed that the Big Red would handily walk away with its third-straight Ancient Eight championship while the rest of the league battled for second place...
Finally, trends do matter, but only when they're big and lasting. All those shipping companies that did so well in 2007 don't make the cut once the time frame is a decade. But an aging population and increasing demand for health care - that's one shift that's here to stay. Among the top 200 are nearly three dozen companies that sell products and services to the sick and dying, from Gilead Sciences, a biotechnology outfit, to Quest Diagnostics, which administers blood and other laboratory tests, to Ventas, a real estate investment trust that manages hospitals and nursing...
...list are all super-focused on what they sell. Chico's is for comfortable women's clothing. Gymboree is to dress your kids. Jos. A. Bank Clothiers is for men's suits and dress shirts. And PetMed Express is to order your dog's prescription online. Department stores, big-box discounters and generalist web sites - retailers that try to be everything to everyone - are nowhere to be found. (See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...
However, analysts believe the big 70% markdowns are more likely to be strategically slapped on certain items rather than spread store-wide as they were last year. "We're definitely expecting to see a lot of promotions in the days before Christmas, but we are not likely to see the blanket discounts and markdowns that we saw a year ago," says Ellen Davis, a spokesperson for the National Retail Federation. "You probably won't walk into a store and see signs for 60%, 70% or 80% off everything."See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...