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...Target responding to the malaise? The credit distress is hard to control, but the company has promised to tighten lending standards and increase collections. On the product side, the company knows it must offer more essentials. "We continue to invest in our food offering in recognition of its importance in driving greater frequency, increasing guest loyalty and making Target a preferred shopping destination," CEO Gregg Steinhafel said during Target's fourth-quarter earnings call. For example, last year the company opened its first distribution center for perishable goods like fruits, vegetables and meats in Lake City, Fla. Target is slated...
Despite LaSorda's tough talk, questions are being raised about whether the Windsor native, whose father was a CAW representative at one of the plants he's threatening to close, might be playing the biggest bluff of his career. It seems hard to imagine Chrysler turning its back on the billions it has invested in Canada, and more than 9,000 employees. That LaSorda is even discussing it, though, is a measure of how desperate the times are for automakers. "I'm hoping it's a bluff," says the CAW's Lewenza, "but I've seen this company mothball plants...
...young, so, despite losses, guys are still positive and excited about…[the] season,” Hartford coach Peter Lawrence wrote in an email. “[I am] very impressed with Harvard so far this season…They play very hard, are disciplined, great on [ground balls], and have a bunch of great players...
Ammiano may be right. A few days after he introduced the bill, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that states should be able to make their own rules for medical marijuana and that federal raids on pot dispensaries in California would cease. The move signaled a softening of the hard-line approach to medicinal pot use previous Administrations have taken. The nomination of Gil Kerlikowske as the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy may also signal a softer federal line on marijuana. If he is confirmed as the so-called drug czar, Kerlikowske will take with...
...Japan's economy has been hard hit by this financial crisis. Under these circumstances, Japan's traditional safety net - the lifetime employment system - was forced to be changed to a great extent. As a result of policies particularly pursued by the Koizumi administration, this employment system has completely collapsed. As a result we are witnessing a large growth in unemployed people, which creates a lot of concern...