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...mid-1990s, management began to reassess TSC's market position. "The number of farmers was shrinking," Scarlett says. "We started looking at people who enjoy the rural lifestyle." Baby boomers were beginning to migrate from cities to rural areas, and these new rec farmers were spending $5.5 billion annually on supplies. "Lifestyle" positioning demanded big changes in merchandise. Farmers raise livestock. Lifestyle farmers have pets and ride horses for fun. Farmers buy feed in quantity and cheaply. Faux farmers buy pet "food" and spare no expense. So TSC stocked up on equine products, bird supplies and pet chow. Out went...
...Cuban native, Calixto joined the Harvard Trademark Program in the mid-1990s as assistant to the director and in 1997, was promoted to the directorship...
...Maybe not too surprising. In a city where the word taxes has long had people reaching for the smelling salts, successive British colonial governments learned to use sales of reclaimed land to finance their budgets. In the mid-1990s?the last time a chunk of centrally located landfill came on the market?the administration sold 0.35 hectares to Citic Group for $430 million, while a consortium of developers paid $1.54 billion for the right to develop another site that now includes the IFC II skyscraper. "It was cheap, easy money," says Sun Hung Kai's Nissim, who for 20 years...
...unusual. According to Dr. Marc Bulterys of the HIV/AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, advances in medicine have made childbearing much safer for the 6,000 to 7,000 HIV-infected women who give birth each year in the U.S. In the mid-1990s, treatments to prevent infant HIV infection were only 60% to 70% effective. Today, when a woman is identified as HIV positive before or very early in pregnancy and is treated appropriately, the risk of her baby's being infected is less than...
...firm has been criticized in the past for its connections to the Burmese military, which provided security for a pipeline project there in the mid-1990s...