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...open up the market to direct competition from overseas. Reliance Industries built 940 stores across the country in 18 months. Aditya Birla group has opened 548 stores since 2007. Today, with India's economy slowing and with losses piling up, the domestic retailers have shut some outlets and laid off employees, partly because of difficulties in keeping large chains supplied with goods. "When you start opening stores and then work backwards, even we get scared," says Mahadeo Pawar, a vegetable grower from Karjat, 31 miles (50 kms) north of Mumbai...
staff getting laid off, or provide retirement packages...
...Then again, just because the Vatican has laid hands on Angels & Demons doesn't mean some people don't detect an unholy conspiracy. In the Christian Film and Television Commission's biweekly Movieguide, Ted Baehr wonders, "How much of the box office of Angels & Demons will end up in the Democrat campaigns? If it makes money, it could...
...Limbaughland? Laid off school teachers, nurses, firemen, and policemen, overcrowded emergency rooms, courts that don’t function, motor vehicle offices that are open three days a week. Are these the images that will warm the hearts of the anti-tax Republicans? Probably not, and they certainly won’t increase the prospects of a Republican resurgence any time soon...
...FlyBy starts getting the drunk munchies early, so we slips down to the dining hall to get some grub. HUDS has laid out an impressive spread, with all the necessary standards—cheese and crackers, vegetables and dip, cocktail shrimp—along with some awesome chicken puffs and crab things. Tragically, all the pigs in a blanket are gone by the time FlyBy showed...