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Lori Kluender, a manager at Urban Outfitters, said she has “a stronger outlook overall...
Need a quick way to check your e-mail and voice mail on the go? The new Microsoft Smartphone is one of the first cell phones to let you access your regular Outlook e-mail as well as offer personal-information management and multimedia features typically found only on PDAs. Running Windows Mobile software, it's available in two models: the Motorola MPx200 ($300 from AT&T) and, shown at left, the Samsung SCH-i600 ($400 after rebate from Verizon). The phones come with a Windows media player for listening to music and playing back songs, and they accept Secure...
Lower U.S. interest rates have also led fixed-income investors to seek out countries offering higher rates. And the swelling budget deficit, which threatens to slow U.S. economic growth, has cast doubt on the greenback's outlook just as many overseas economies are starting to rebound. Says Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist at HSBC USA bank: "The dollar is in a long-term decline...
...that major publishers are getting on the bandwagon, we just may live up to our industry's history of putting out too much of a good thing and thus creating an implosion. I believe this is an area you might want to look into to temper the somewhat rosy outlook for GNs. Never have I seen a better chance for GNs to become a part of the landscape in libraries, bookstores and the public's awareness. I just hope we don't blow it. Michael J. Martens Vice President of Business Development Dark Horse Comics Milwaukie...
...China, where there are more than 900 KFC restaurants and at least one new branch opening every other day, the outlook is much sunnier. The mainland now constitutes about 15% of Yum's operating profits ($273 million in the third quarter of 2003) and accounts for approximately 40% of its international business, according to Speiser. And because China's population is about five times that of the U.S., the company figures this is just the corporate equivalent of an appetizer. "There should be tens of thousands of KFCs, Pizza Huts and Taco Bell Grandes here," says...