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You reportedly invested $20 million in this building, why invest so much in the Japanese market when it is not performing so well? I think when the market is not good is the time when you have to do something, you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Armani in Tokyo | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

In 1979, Black made publishing history at New York magazine when she became the first female publisher of a weekly consumer magazine. She then made a leap into newspapers in 1983, joining Al Neuharth, CEO of Gannett, and his fledgling newspaper USA Today. Like Ms., it was groundbreaking, but critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning the Pages at Hearst | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

In trying to relate better to shoppers, Wal-Mart has bumped up training to improve what it calls customer engagement. In its redesigned consumer-electronics section, for instance, the company has discovered that it can sell pricier merchandise like flat-panel televisions and GPS equipment, but customers need a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restoring Wal-Mart | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

But given Beijing's preoccupation with maintaining social harmony, that isn't likely to happen soon. "Most of China's population simply can't afford international prices," Kwan says. Chinese drivers, of course, agree. "They could have at least been more patient," says Huang Youfeng, waiting in line to fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Feels the Fuel Pinch | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

Questions about the device's safety linger at least partly because there are no official standards for its use. Because it isn't classified as a firearm by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Taser is exempt from federal firearms requirements and regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Tasers Being Overused? | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

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