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...this jump by pointing to the unusually cold and snowy winter, plus the folks who traded down their Valentine's Day purchases from fancy dinners and jewelry to smaller-ticket gift packages. Unit sales for canning and freezing supplies like jars, bags and containers were up 11.5% during the eight weeks ending on Feb. 21, making them the second best-performing category on Nielsen's list. This suggests that consumers are trying to increase the shelf life of their food purchases so they don't have to head back to the store. "There's a segment of the population returning...
Fahmy's ambitious plan is to establish a top international jewelry brand. Since expanding outside Egypt in 2002, eight Azza Fahmy outlets have opened from Dubai to Jordan, where Queen Rania is a fan, as well as in London. Fahmy now employs 180 designers, artisans, marketers and consultants. Pieces sell for between...
...division of the RooftopComedy’s National College Comedy Competition Tournament, exclusively designed to discover the “funniest” students in America. The bracket-style tournament bases acceptance on the comedic value of clips submitted by college stand-up groups. “There are eight people from each school, and two schools go head-to-head at a local comedy club,” said Charles T. James ’09, a four-year member of HCSUCS. The more hilarious team is voted the winner and proceeds to the next round, attempting...
...said, “but Tyler Petropulous got the ball [from the Wildcats] with a minute left to give us the drive to tie the game.”Shortly after Petropolous dished to one of her teammates, UNH committed a foul with nine seconds left, awarding Harvard an eight meter shot. The shot went wide, but Halpern regained possession to score in the last second of regulation.After a five-minute break, the match jumped into the two extra frames, where the Crimson hoped to capitalize on its newly found energy.“We wanted to carry the momentum...
...licenses that robbed them of any chance at economic mobility. Because they are not considered citizens of Burma, they cannot work in the public sector as teachers or soldiers or doctors. Nor can they attend university in Arakan's capital, Sittwe, where communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims flared eight years ago. The villagers' tone when describing their plight was matter-of-fact, as if they were complaining of a rainstorm or a bad case of influenza. To marry, some Rohingya must sign a document promising not to bear more than two children - a regulation that presumably ensures the number...