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...retailers have planned for this season's frugality, ordering up to 20% less inventory, making them less susceptible to mid-December price-slashing. "You clearly aren't going to see the kind of discounting that you saw last year," says Stephen Sadove, chairman and chief executive of Saks Inc. Wayne Hood, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, agrees. "We're expecting 50% [markdowns] to be kind of the norm this year vs. maybe 75% last year," he says. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...discounting can only go so far before it no longer makes financial sense. For this reason, promotions and price discounts will likely be strategically planned, not panic-driven as they were last year, says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail consulting and investment firm...
...Squiggles, Pipsqueak and Num Nums, scoot around and coo like real pets. Kids can add accessories like a car, a skateboard and a wheel to their own little hamster world - without the inevitable mess or traumatic death. "This is the hottest toy of the year," says Gerald Storch, chairman and CEO of Toys "R" Us. "There's absolutely no doubt about...
...always will be. Just because India's political system is noisy and disaggregated, with power dispersed between the central government and states, does not mean that it can't deliver. "I don't regard dissent and different views as a sign of dysfunctionality," Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the influential deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission, told...
...Gulag and Holocaust concentration camps. But when Nien Cheng's harrowing Life and Death in Shanghai was published in 1986, the bamboo curtain was just lifting on the decade of madness that had seized the People's Republic beginning in the mid-1960s. Cheng was an improbable survivor of Chairman Mao's brutal campaign, a porcelain-boned diplomat's wife who spent the precommunist years swathed in silk. Yet as she recalled in her best-selling account, she would learn to "fight, whatever the price...