Word: pasts
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...retail sales, compared with a 2.7% drop a year ago. "I know some analysts are predicting positive numbers, but I just don't see it working out as well," he says. Given his track record - Beemer's sales predictions have been accurate within a half of 1% over the past 17 of 18 holiday seasons - the economy shouldn't expect a Christmas gift. "It's a heck of a challenging time," says Mark Israel, president of Hearts on Fire, a high-end jewelry maker, "and we have to respond." Israel says Hearts on Fire will sell more products than usual...
...National Federation of Independent Business offers similar gloomy findings: its latest data indicate 86% of small businesses surveyed reported that earnings either fell or were flat in the past three months and 82% posted either flat or lower sales. Over the next three months, 21% plan to cut workers and 32% expect to reduce inventory...
...small business community has typically played a key role in leading the country out of past recessions...
...clear yet how the task force's recommendations will impact the decisions that women and their physicians will make about mammography in coming years, but already doctors are fearing the worst. "We could erode the progress we made in reducing breast-cancer mortality over the past decade or so because now the breast cancers are going to be larger when we find them, and more likely to be at a more advanced stage," says Dr. Therese Bevers, professor of clinical cancer prevention at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She adds, "Even including the risk or harms of screening...
...slowly entered that sketch alley facing the river that leads to the Leverett dining hall, a girl clad in green brushed quickly past me with her headphones on, ready to speed down the Charles and back like a leprechaun on fire. This happens almost every morning...