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...boxes, lost their appeal. Sales tumbled; stores closed. The company's stock price plummeted. Fewer customers meant less customer support. When the Kansas City operation finally closed in 2006, Stevens was among the last employees let go. Now, for the first time in her life, she's finding it difficult to talk her way into...
...that on Thursday the FDIC would release its report on the health of the country's savings institutions. Now the report is out, and you can sum up what it says about American banks in one word: sick. "There is no question that this is one of the most difficult periods we have encountered during the FDIC's 75 years of operation," said Bair, commenting on the report. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...said the long name is difficult to understand or remember and limits the scope of the organization to those sexualities explicitly named in the organization title...
...Counterproliferation Initiative and managed the reform of DOD’s national security export controls. His colleagues at the Kennedy School said they were optimistic about his upcoming tenure in DC. “The Belfer Center [for Science and International Affairs] and Harvard Kennedy School will have a difficult time filling the void Ash will leave, but he is setting such a wonderful example of what this school and center are about: putting policy into practice,” said Graham T. Allison ’62—a colleague of Carter’s at the Belfer...
...former soccer player now living in poverty in a North Korean coal mining town with his pregnant wife and their young son. When Yong-soo’s wife—who is mysteriously left nameless—falls ill with tuberculosis, exacerbated by malnutrition, Yong-soo makes the difficult decision to attempt an illegal crossing into China to obtain the medicines his wife so desperately needs. In traditional tragic form, Joon is left alone to care for his ailing mother, but she soon dies while Yong-soo is in China. Joon departs to find his father, not knowing that...