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...record 55 titles about real estate investing reached bookstores last year, and an additional 50 are arriving this year--more than double the pace of the mid-1990s, when housing was inarguably a great buy, according to Booksinprint.com Still, "there has never been a better time to invest in real estate," says LeGrand, whose strategy is to hold properties "days, weeks or maybe months--never years." The crush of today's printed advice is aimed at investors, not people looking for a place to live. It boils down to three tips...
...higher interest rates will deter home-improvement spending are hurting the stock. Nardelli doesn't think interest rates can derail Home Depot, nor is he looking for radical ideas. Wal-Mart made the risky move into selling groceries when it went through a period of sagging sales in the mid-1990s and built a wildly successful new business. Instead, Nardelli is stretching the company's existing businesses. He is expanding its services to capture retiring baby boomers who prefer "do it for me" to "do it yourself," and the company will soon start selling in China, having had success with...
...almost 5.5 million, or 31%. Often, "as firms expand or sell in foreign markets, they have to hire people in the U.S. to coordinate logistics and manage," says Slaughter. One example, he says, is Wal-Mart, which has added nearly 1,500 jobs in Bentonville, Ark., since the mid-1990s to coordinate distribution of goods to new stores in 10 other countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia...
...that roughly 79 percent of graduating seniors “definitely” or “probably” plan to go to graduate school at some point in the future. At the same time, only 26 percent are going on to graduate school next year. In the mid-1990s, that number was closer to 30 percent...
...cafeteria, obesity experts would like to see changes in what kids learn about fitness and diet. Studies have shown that teaching kids to eat smarter, be more active and watch less TV can have lasting results. The largest school-based health-intervention study ever done was a mid-1990s trial, involving 5,000 children in four states, called CATCH (Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health). Aimed at preventing heart disease rather than obesity, it showed that improvements in the lunchroom, gym class and health instruction could change kids' eating habits and activity levels at school and at home...