Word: depot
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Love him or scorn him: Richard Grasso, chief of the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.), is drawing strongly mixed signals of affection and rejection these days. At a civic function in New York City last week, Robert Nardelli, head of Home Depot, told Grasso that he would love to have him on his board--again--if he ever leaves the exchange. While Nardelli was wooing Grasso, seat holders at the exchange were doing their level best to make the N.Y.S.E. boss available, drumming up support for a special meeting that could lead to Grasso's resignation...
...Dartboard knows that even Mather House has its diehard fans who insist that the East German train depot they call home is really wicked awesome (and Dartboard expects at least a few rambling/incoherent/threatening letters from a Matherista or two in the name of “House pride”). But Dartboard believes that such thoughts are simply the products of defective or possibly deranged minds...
...didn't mean to create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of the Generation Y frat boy, the Eustace Tilly of the Maxim set. Scott's Stifler, who returns this Friday in the Pie franchise's third installment, American Wedding, is a rich kid dedicated to humiliating those who appear to be his friends. In the first film, he slipped a laxative...
...sour a shopper's whole day. Ikea, which doubled its number of checkout stands when it recently moved a store from King of Prussia, Pa., to bigger quarters in nearby Conshohocken, is looking even further ahead to a roving pre-checkout system, using wireless technology for mobile cashiers. Home Depot, based in Atlanta, recently invested heavily in self-checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle...
...Europe's biggest semiconductor manufacturers - STMicroelectronics and Infineon - are ranked fourth and seventh in the world respectively. Each company is pursuing a different strategy. Infineon is determined to maintain a range of products from the highly cyclical drams - a computer chip that acts as a temporary storage depot for data while the computer performs a task - to "logic" chips used in devices such as mobile phones. Meanwhile, Schumacher hopes to offset the downturn in the dram cycle by being strong in logic chips, which are less prone to business swings. Currently, around 39% of Infineon's sales come from drams...