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Perhaps the managers at Tandy Corp., based in Fort Worth, Texas, should have heeded another aphorism: the bigger they come, the harder they fall. That describes roughly what happened last week when Tandy, which also owns Radio Shack and Computer City, acknowledged that Incredible Universe was really an incredible flop and pulled the plug on the entire 17-store operation. The closings, plus the stores' losses, totaled some $230 million and completely wiped out Tandy's profits for 1996. "Maybe," says retail analyst Lynn Detrick of Williams MacKay Jordan & Co. of Houston, "this does suggest that you can take...
...billions of dollars from taxpayers to the poor has had any positive impact over the past 40 years? I don't think that money will ever be the answer. Nor do I believe that questioning the success of our welfare-entitlement policies makes someone a racist. Rocco Ferrera Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. Iran's New Man re your interview with Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [Sept. 26]: In discussing the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran more than 25 years ago, he said, "Sometimes, in order to gain your rights, you have to do certain things." That sounds...
...fans will be more considerate of our traditions than many of our other opponents or our own supposed supporters.Waste’Win Yellow Lodge Young is a 2001 graduate of the University of North Dakota and a citizen of the Standing Rock Dakota/Lakota Sioux Nation. She lives in Fort Yates...
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...sense of helplessness and inability to understand why tragedies like these have to occur should not cause anyone to attempt to explain the Fort Worth shootings as expressions of frustration with judges, lawyers or the justice system. Plain and simple, they are despicable acts-examples of the worst nature of man. The rest of us are challenged even more to demonstrate the best...