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Meanwhile, the Air Force's top general, John Jumper, told reporters in Washington that the process for reporting abuse was not working and that "intimidation in the chain of command" may have kept women silent. The Senate Armed Services Committee, on which Allard sits, is likely to push for a full hearing...
...academy's cocky flyboy culture at fault for its continuing woes? Or were wrong signals sent by the chain of command? Or both? Senator Allard has publicly identified Brigadier General S. Taco Gilbert III, the commandant of cadets, as a "common thread" in reports of women victims who felt they were treated punitively or indifferently. For the academy superintendent, Lieut. General John R. Dallager, a combat pilot with 600-plus hours' flying over hot spots like Southeast Asia and Bosnia--and the father of three daughters in the military--the scandal has been devastating. "There is a power relationship...
...stores in northern Mexico would gobble up the tortillas, because Hispanic customers at its 280 stores in Texas and Louisiana had already taken to their chewy texture and toasty flavor. That's just one example of the cross-border synergy that's helping H-E-B, as the chain is called, expand sales and profits in both countries...
...this is no mere bodega. Grupo Gigante, Mexico's third largest supermarket chain, with 270 stores and $3 billion in annual sales, is staking its claim north of the border. It operates four stores in the L.A. area and will open four more this year. Gigante (pronounced hee-gan-tay) aims to become the most popular supermarket among California's 11 million Latinos, most of whom hail from Mexico and think of the stores as old friends. The chain's ultimate goal is even more audacious: "To be the leading supermarket in Latino areas across the United States," says Justo...
Gigante won't provide specific figures, but Frias says, measured in sales per square foot, Latino grocery stores outperform traditional supermarkets by 25% in L.A. neighborhoods where the two go head to head. Indeed, some of the U.S.-based chains are offering Gigante the sincerest flattery by trying to copy its business model. Last year Albertsons, based in Boise, Idaho, the country's second largest supermarket chain, after Kroger, launched an effort to attract Latinos by revamping three slumping Southern California stores in predominantly Latino areas. The company hung Spanish-English signs over the aisles, expanded produce sections 30%, quadrupled...