Word: janet
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...Zach Lund uses the drug to reduce his hair loss, but it's banned because it can mask the use of steroids. As a result, he has been banished from the games. Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey team, is being stalked by a scandal linking his wife Janet Jones and close associates to gambling. Says an indignant Christine Keshen, a member of Canada's women's curling team: "If people can't lay off of him for what's going on back home, they need to realize this is the Olympics." And that is the point, after...
...billion Federated-May merger is the logical evolution of decades in which the industry failed to respond to customer complaints that department stores were boring, the service nonexistent and the merchandise ubiquitous without being interesting. "Department stores have lost sight of their customer. It's that simple," says Janet Hoffman, a San Francisco--based retail strategist for Accenture. Sales tumbled, and chain after chain of historic, family-owned retailers--Gimbels, Woodward & Lothrop, Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward--closed their doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were in business; today there...
...According to the website, 39 Harvard affiliates have signed the petition, including Professor of Law Janet Halley. She wrote in an e-mail yesterday that NYU “should not change such substantial parts of the academic culture to cram down the union...
...certain events that leave their mark on pop culture, there comes a flashpoint when everyone's talking about the same thing. Call it the Bennifer blitz, the Monica moment, the Janet Jackson distraction. Ground down and fed up by news that matters, Americans lock their vision on a movie-star romance, a sex scandal, a Super Bowl oops as tabloid headlines and talk-show hosts exploit and orchestrate the public's evanescent fervor...
...much unneeded heartache. The commission’s report is not an appropriate response to the current situation in New Orleans. The debacle that was the horribly handled relief efforts in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina must not be repeated, yet the current proposal threatens just that. As Janet R. Howard, chief executive of the Bureau of Governmental Research, told The New York Times: “There are some very tough decisions that have to be made here, and no one relishes making them. But to say that people should invest their money and invest their energies...