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...Many analysts believe that the store-operations background of new CEO Mike Duke will keep investors quite happy. Though the recession finally caught up to Walmart last quarter, when the company reported a 1.2% drop in U.S. same-store sales, Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1. Joseph Feldman, retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, estimates that each store costs Walmart between $25 and $30 million. In order to continue the momentum that...
...McKinsey's report, which was completed as part of nearly $15 million worth of work for the Department of Health this year, also called for a recruitment freeze within the next two years and for a drop in medical-school admissions, according to the Health Service Journal. It said savings of up to $5 billion a year could be made by improving staff productivity, while more than $3 billion could be saved on external contracts with waste-disposal companies, food suppliers and other contractors. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...that the move came "in light of" his decision to give the Office's director Bob Mitchell the new title of assistant dean for diversity relations and communications. In which case, it's unclear why getting another person to run the office was off the table, though Smith does drop the term "cost-effective" at the tail end of the note...
...According to the International Commission for the Conservation of Tuna (ICCAT), a Madrid-based organization that regulates tuna fishing among most countries that engage in it, breeding stocks of bluefin tuna have declined to below 40% of their 1970 levels, with the steepest drop occurring in the past five to 10 years. Much of the problem lies with the runaway market for sushi and the illegal fishing that exploits the profits it offers. Some scientists, like Brian MacKenzie of Denmark's National Institute of Aquatic Resources, have suggested that at the current levels of fishing, the collapse of bluefin stocks...
...Despite the recent drop in poll support for reform, Democratic strategists still see several viable routes to getting a health-care bill through the Senate with the 60 votes necessary to avoid a filibuster. These include, in declining order of preference for the White House: forging a bipartisan consensus to pass the 60-vote threshold; holding all 59 Democratic Senators and recruiting the GOP's Snowe; depending entirely on Democratic votes, including a replacement for Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. The last alternative is to use parliamentary maneuvers to pass major parts of the legislation with just 51 votes...