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...spot," where operating profits were up 36% to $1.1 billion. Profits of $1.1 billion may sound robust, but Wal-Mart has invested at least $17 billion overseas, giving it a return of just over 6%. "You'd be better off putting the money in a bank-or under a mattress," maintains Richard Hyman, chairman of British retail consultancy Verdict Research. Indeed, in the U.S., Wal-Mart regularly enjoys a return on investment of around...
...keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night, in Big's room in his parent's house, on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba and there suddenly seems very little difference between his crowd and Jacky's. "Smoking once in a while, on weekends, that really won't do any harm," Big explains, exhaling a plume of white...
...another half-point interest rate cut on (or before) the Fed's March 20 meeting, and staged a little Tuesday-morning rally. And good news for the rest of us: The New Economy, and its attendant efficiencies, is here to stay. Consumers needn't start stuffing money under the mattress just...
Miguel Adrover's formidable buzz has been built on the strength of just two tiny shows. After the second one, in which he showed a jacket made from the ticking taken off a mattress that was discarded on the street (and reportedly had belonged to the recently deceased Quentin Crisp), the fashion pages were practically wet from all the drooling. They raved over the inventiveness and "elegant edginess" of such outfits as the the two pairs of flannel pants with Hermes belts, one of which was retailored as a jacket, right, or the navy sweatshirts with Yankees baseball caps worked...
...also easier to pedal, Dr. Mirkin explains, because they use the higher, more muscular section of your hamstrings, which is less susceptible to injury. One believer is Dave Glowacz, who raves, "It's like riding in a lawn chair." Perhaps next year's version will come equipped with a mattress and those magic massage fingers--to cure our aches before we even have them...