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Italy is the sick man of Europe these days--its economy has shrunk 4% since 1999, after adjusting for inflation--and the predicament of the chair triangle helps explain why. Along with Germany and France, the nation has been struggling with weak consumer spending, waning productivity and rising government deficits...
A glazed doughnut, a decaf and Krispy Kreme's lukewarm performance, sprinkled with profit warnings and an SEC investigation, will keep the new CEO focused on revitalizing the once darling brand. Having rebuilt Planters Nuts and Oreo for Kraft and Nabisco, Brewster, 49, can again tap consumer insights and learn...
Still, most companies planning to launch Blu-Ray players and PC drives say they are on target for a mid-2006 launch. Today, Sony's U.S. consumer-electronics division announced that its first Blu-Ray player, the BDP-S1, should ship in July, priced at $1,000. Blu-Ray drives...
In this week's case, which was discovered on an Alabama ranch, record-keeping was so poor that inspectors could not immediately determine where the diseased animal was born or raised. Inspectors did not even know the animal's age and were forced to examine its teeth to make a...
Three cases is far from an epidemic, and there has yet to be a reported human case of the illness in the U.S., but steak and hamburger lovers worried about mad cow disease may not take comfort in the USDA's response to the Alabama case. At a press conference...