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...percentage points between those spending more on their pets versus those spending less compared to 2006. In their 2008 study only two categories out of 17 showed significant spending increases among women and men: food and pet supplies. Owners are frequenting pet specialty boutiques or picking up an extra doggie tee or collar along with their own clothing purchases at places like Coach, Old Navy and Anthropologie. PetSmart, the largest specialty retailer for pets, had a same-store sales growth rate...
...Credit default swaps were seen as easy money for banks when they were first launched more than a decade ago. Reason? The economy was booming and corporate defaults were few back then, making the swaps a low-risk way to collect premiums and earn extra cash. The swaps focused primarily on municipal bonds and corporate debt in the 1990s, not on structured finance securities. Investors flocked to the swaps in the belief that big corporations would seldom go bust in such flourishing economic times...
...doing the things we’re doing, and we just need to shoot a little smarter, a little better, and hopefully it’ll fall’ and that’s what they did.”In a somewhat physical game, the Crimson killed both extra-man opportunities for the Stags and went 1-for-3 in its own man-up situations.“I thought a year ago maybe we weren’t as physical as we wanted to be,” Tillman said. “So we really emphasized that...
Over the last two weeks, the government says Hong Kong's medical workers have put in 15,000 hours of overtime to meet demand at the city's overcrowded hospitals. The Hospital Authority has earmarked nearly $2.6 million in extra funds through the end of April to bulk up services and help pay for overtime at hospitals like Tuen Mun, where emergency ward admissions have spiked about 20% in recent weeks. A specially appointed panel of doctors has examined the cases of the children who died in order to ascertain whether it the flu was the cause - and whether...
...learned. "I think in the U.S. we might use this as an initial test," Gaziano says. "We can at least narrow the group of people for whom we need to screen cholesterol." Those with very few other heart-disease risk factors, for example, probably don't need the extra blood work, since their cholesterol profile wouldn't make a big difference to overall risk anyway. Similarly, those patients with several risk factors for heart disease probably need treatment no matter what their cholesterol levels. By giving blood tests only to those on the fence, doctors can save resources...