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Teen-oriented and casual-wear retailers, which had a slow start in November, were among the busiest over the Black Friday weekend. Companies such as Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy were big winners, wrote Credit Suisse analyst Lejuez in a research note. Traffic to Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works was also strong, said Kimberly Greenberger, a managing director at Citigroup Global Markets...
...have available,’ then began moving all our furniture, our pieces, into the building,” Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside the furnishings. One former D/R employee even donated her Marimekko wedding gown and bridesmaid dress...
...potential response to the stresses of a shorter reading period would be for professors to avoid assigning the heavy workloads at the end of the fall semester that would have been manageable under the old calendar, and instead opt to distribute the workload more evenly throughout the semester. Too many professors this fall maintained their old syllabi structures without considering the potential impact of calendar reform on end-of-term student workloads...
This break in an almost century-old pattern coincided with great increases in occupational earnings differentials, which have continued to grow, seemingly exponentially. It seems quaint, if not unfathomable, that just three decades ago the differentials that then existed—generally two- to fivefold in earnings between business leaders and doctors and lawyers, or five- to tenfold with professors, scientists, and public servants—were often rationalized by the country’s highest-ranking graduates as reasonable additional compensation to balance the lower standing of business jobs among their peers...
Clemmons has a history of getting out of jail, despite an alarming criminal record. As a 17-year-old living in Arkansas, he was sentenced to consecutive prison terms totaling nearly 100 years for five different felony charges, including robbery and illegal possession of a handgun. During his courtroom appearances, he frequently exhibited unruly and violent behavior, throwing things and even lunging for a guard's handgun. Yet in 2000, citing the young age at which he had been sentenced and his newfound devotion to God, Clemmons, then 27, wrote a letter pleading for clemency from then governor Mike Huckabee...