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...defenders. "They've already got enough lawyers. They're diversifying," he says, into public fund administrators (to dip into billions of dollars of European Union aid money destined for southern Italy), engineers, computer programmers, bankers and financial managers - these are the new faces in the trenches of organized crime. Chain-smoking in his cluttered Palermo office, top anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard mafioso contacts a "mafioso businessman," who is the conduit to a "legitimate" businessman, who provides the ultimate cover to launder money through real enterprises all the way up to the stock market...
Lands' End customers also tend to be multichannel. Buyers might spot a swimsuit they like in the chain's colorful catalog, then go to landsend.com to order it by simply punching in the product number. Nearly 20% of those who shopped at the website during the last two months of 2001 used this catalog-linked "quick order" feature, reports NetRatings senior analyst Dawn Brozek. Lands' End is an innovator in other online features, including a "virtual modeling" function that lets shoppers build a 3-D screen image of themselves and "try on" items. Online orders accounted for more than...
Addressing concerns that Lands' End--a much smaller but well-established retailer known for quality, value and outstanding service--would be swallowed up by the big Sears chain, Lacy emphasized that Lands' End would remain a distinct brand and continue operating independently under current CEO David Dyer. "We want Lands' End to be Lands' End," Lacy says. The plan is to feature Lands' End clothes on sears.com but not vice versa. Dyer will assume responsibility for all direct-to-customer operations, including sears.com...
...comet ended the 135 million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...
...comet ended the 135-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...