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...Marriott chain has opened about 150 managed-retirement communities under the names Brighton Gardens and MapleRidge, apparently confident that boomers will be filling the apartments in 10 years, the assisted-care quarters in 20, the intensive-care units in 30. About 25% of those latter spaces are being specifically reserved for residents with cognitive disorders. Makes sense: while only 8% of people over 65 suffer from the severe memory loss that characterizes Alzheimer's disease, the number leaps to a range of 30% to 47% for those over 85, and we all know that we're going to live longer...
Here we go again. Stocks set off on a fair-to-middling rally (by recent standards, anyway) Friday after hearing the fair-to-middling good news about wholesale prices from the Labor Department. The Producer Price Index, a bottom-of-the-food-chain indicator of inflation pressure, was unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed...
...existence of chain stores makes the Square a less unique place to shop, Sage says...
...large store attracts another, and chain stores vying for room in the Square have far more money at their disposal than mom-and-pop stores can afford. The chain stores, then, become more attractive to landlords...
...think we can survive," she says. "We'll go out of our way to accommodate customers. After all, we don't have to follow a set of rules like a chain store does...