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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...
...when a portion of McKinsey's confidential work calling for a 10% cut in the NHS workforce was leaked to the British press last week, politicians rushed to the airwaves to reject the report they themselves had commissioned. "That's not what we are about," Minister of Health Mike O'Brien told the BBC. "In core frontline services, we need more staff rather than fewer...
...striker is saddled with the unenviable task of replacing Mike Fucito ’09, who currently plays professionally with Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders. If that weren’t enough, Rogers is also the heir apparent to Harvard co-captain Andre Akpan, the Crimson’s all-time leading scorer—before Friday’s game, Akpan told Rogers, perhaps only half-jokingly, “This is the first step to breaking all my records...
...attention being paid to the painstaking negotiating process that is under way in the Senate, the House now holds as much, if not more, risk for health-care reform. Already, 23 moderate Democrats have said they will not vote for any of the three bills on the table. Representative Mike Ross, an Arkansas Democrat and a leading member of the Blue Dogs, the fiscally conservative House Dems, said this week that he would not vote for any bill that includes a public plan. If there was one major casualty of the talk of death panels, Nazi comparisons and screaming matches...
...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...