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...million company, which has more than 1,500 locations in the U.S., needs a spark. The recession has forced diners to flee restaurants like Denny's, the Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang's and head to either cheaper fast-food joints or the comfort of home. "For Denny's, the core consumers are blue-collar families," says Anton Brenner, restaurant analyst at Roth Capital Partners. "They've been squeezed very hard." In the fourth quarter of 2008, same-store sales dropped 6.1%. Sales fell 3.7% for the year, and the company's stock price, at $2.14 a share, has dropped...
Several aftershocks were registered on Tuesday, including one tremor that caused rescue workers to flee the partially collapsed buildings where they were looking for survivors. Berlusconi said the search would go on for another 48 hours, but he admitted that chances were dwindling of finding additional victims alive. More than 6,000 rescue workers and volunteers have responded since the quake struck. The immediate concern for saving lives and finding emergency shelter for the survivors will eventually be replaced by questions about retrofitting efforts. The earthquake-prone country has two major fault lines, and vast numbers of people live...
...Joseph Kabila for reaching agreement in January with leaders of neighboring Rwanda to launch joint military operations against militia groups fighting both regimes from strongholds in eastern Congo. The result, Sarkozy noted, has been an a halt to the massacres that have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. (See pictures of war and displacement in Congo...
...space of time between 5am and 8am. But, in truth, it can only be described by those who have been there. It is cruel. It is painful. In its wake lie nothing but tears, agony, and spent cans of Red Bull...ineffective as usual. Try as you may to flee to the sanctuary of The Onion, Youtube, or FML...to no avail: the VOID is a black hole that seeks to sucks the life out of any and all comers...
...danger is that the victims of the world's worst crimes are lost in all this noise. In Sudan's case, that would be the 300,000 dead and 2.7 million who have been forced to flee their homes in Darfur. Global justice might be tough to implement. Those figures are why it's worth trying...