Word: mikes
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...Many analysts believe that the store-operations background of new CEO Mike Duke will keep investors quite happy. Though the recession finally caught up to Walmart last quarter, when the company reported a 1.2% drop in U.S. same-store sales, Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1. Joseph Feldman, retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, estimates that each store costs Walmart between $25 and $30 million. In order to continue the momentum that...
...Crimson, while Atkinson notched a pair of scores, nearly rallying Harvard to a late comeback. Unfortunately for the Crimson, time expired before the squad could line up a good final look.A strong returning core of sophomores also got into Saturday’s action, with Luka Babic, Mike Katzer and Evan Zepfel all adding scores for Harvard.NO. 13 PACIFIC 17, HARVARD 4The 13th-ranked Tigers proved too much for the Crimson in the Cambridge squad’s first contest of the year. Juniors Jeff Lee and Alex Thompson along with sophomore Luka Babic each scored their first goals...
...Seawolves (0-2). And in the 28th minute, Stony Brook freshman Berien Gobeil ran right through the Harvard midfield and rifled a shot from over 30 yards out into the top left corner. Questions about the team’s ability to replace the creative influences of Mike Fucito ’09 and John Stamatis ’09 suddenly loomed even larger...
...part-time or moonlighting ventures. If business starts booming, neophyte owners who take on employees have to register under the normal labor regime, which means assuming the taxes and salary-linked social charges that prove so dissuasive to many would-be entrepreneurs in the first place. (Read: "Open-Mike Night for Entrepreneurs...
...easing China's rise to international prominence while helping to ensure that democratic allies such as Japan do not feel threatened by it. To show how important the alliance with Japan used to be considered, the U.S. for many years appointed seasoned politicians to the Embassy in Japan - Senators Mike Mansfield and Howard Baker, former Vice-President Walter Mondale and Speaker of the House Tom Foley. The pattern was broken when Baker retired after George W. Bush's first term, and the President appointed Tom Schieffer, a friend and business partner from Texas; Obama has followed suit with the appointment...