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...their expertise and long-established relationships to the equation. "You want to be the one place small-business owners go, because once you have them you want to suck them dry," says Shore. BizBuyer CEO Louvat believes that only exchanges offering a range of services will thrive. "Like Wal-Mart, the one-stop shop is the wave of the future for exchanges," he says. Others disagree. When Demandline CEO Patrick Burns founded his company this year, he made a calculated decision to offer only services. "Telephone carriers pay just one penny for a call and charge 10[cents]," he says...
...spirit of everyone in the media, I suppose I will have to mention the presidential elections. As I write this, everything's up for grabs-Florida, New Mexico, blue light specials at the local K-Mart-though it might be settled by the time this goes into print. One thing seems certain, though. The new president will probably have worse musical taste than the outgoing one. Just think about it. Clinton shares the last name as P-Funk lead George. Bush is just the name of a weak British band that wants to sound like it comes from Seattle...
...James and Nachman sued to contravene the rulings, which the Governor deemed obstructive federal intervention. A hiring freeze left social workers' positions vacant. Nachman refused to disburse "flex funds" that the court allowed counties to spend at their discretion, and social workers had to open charge accounts at Wal-Mart to buy diapers and clothes for children. Nachman later resigned amid controversy over allegations she had lied on her resume and had withheld information from a grand jury investigating whether the foster-care problems in Mobile were the result of criminal negligence...
...shoes are sold in Gadzooks' 350-store chain and in scores of boutiques like rockabilly mart Daddy-O's, in Marion, Ind., which stocks saddle shoes next to Sha Sha's iridescent Mary Janes. This spring the company is adding a line of garish golf shoes--sans the hidden pocket, so stylish duffers will still have to store their tees elsewhere...
...phalanx of the nation's largest retailers--Wal-Mart, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the Limited among them--are suing Visa and MasterCard, saying they too were overcharged. The merchants will argue before a federal judge in Brooklyn that they are forced to accept and pay an artificially high fee on debit-card sales. They hope to wring $8.1 billion from the defendants in this class action--a number that would triple, if they win, under federal antitrust...