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...Court. The issue would then be put before voters near the end of the year. At least one quarter of the electorate - about 7 million people - has to turn out to vote for the result to be deemed valid. If the "yes" votes outnumber the "no" votes by any margin - even just one vote - the referendum is passed...
...worth pointing out that this difference was within the survey's margin of error. That is, the decline could just be noise. But other news in the report - and evidence from other sources - points to a consumer-spending trend that is at best flat. Retail sales excluding automobiles, a better indicator of the underlying trend, were down 0.5%. March's overall sales decline was revised down to 1.3% from 1.2%. And so on. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...authors of the Science paper based their findings on early data from the H1N1 outbreak, estimating that about 23,000 people had been infected in Mexico by late April, with a fatality rate of about 0.4%. Those numbers come with a wide margin for error on either side, and there are still holes in the epidemiology that need to be filled, but the consensus is that the WHO's handling of H1N1 was reasonable. "Our research indicates that the WHO was justified in its actions in the early days," says Christophe Fraser, an epidemiologist at Imperial College and the lead...
...been planning the rollout's timing for over two years and that McDonald's is not specifically targeting Starbucks. "We don't need to talk about someone else to justify our business," says Thompson. McDonald's is just trying to grow, he says, by capturing share in a high-margin sector - specialty coffee - that has shown consistent growth. Whether you believe the company's motives or not, the bottom line is that McDonald's seems positioned for success...
...standard bread machines has become a surprise hit in the U.S. Consumers say it helps avoid the problem of large loaves going stale. "We don't have to be No. 1," says Tatsu Yamasaki, vice president of sales for Zojirushi USA, of the company's occasionally offbeat, high-margin products. "We'd like to be the only...