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...wonder that so many skeptics think Lampert's latest gambit is more about real estate than retail, part of a long-term liquidation plan to unload billions of dollars' worth of property, as well as perhaps some valuable brands, to the highest bidders. But it's a notion that the notoriously reticent Lampert took pains to reject last week. While acknowledging that some underperforming stores would continue to be disposed of, he told investors, "I don't think any retailer should aspire to have its real estate be worth more than its operating business...
...Bridge and spotted a luscious woman on the walkway. He sped ahead, parked by a bench in a park just below the Bridge exit and sat there waiting for her, ready to make blithe conversation, as if he hadn't just executed an Earnhardt in hopes his impromptu romantic gambit would...
...admission, Bush warned that "there are going to be costs." No other President or candidate for the office has been willing to say it so plainly and then tackle the issue head on--even though Social Security's looming insolvency has been apparent for decades. It's a daring gambit on Bush's part, and he can expect a difficult fight. But he has made it clear that he's eager to spend his newfound political capital on Social Security reform. The President sees reforming Social Security as a linchpin in reaching his broader goal of creating an "ownership society...
Mahoney said the Pring-Wilson lawyers’ gambit to put their client on the witness stand backfired by allowing the prosecution to undermine his credibility...
...most storied power players over the matter of ... colored lights. The proposal: to allow the millions of Americans watching this Thursday's first presidential debate to see the warning signal whenever George Bush or John Kerry has exceeded his allotted time to answer a question. It was a transparent gambit by the President's representative, former Secretary of State James Baker, to raise the famously windy challenger's chances for embarrassment. "Undignified," sniffed a Kerry strategist. "It's like a game show." But Kerry's negotiator, lawyer Vernon Jordan, gave in--just as he had to Baker's earlier demand...