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...savings primarily in better software. "They can add more stores efficiently. They know more about the products in the store," says Ron Glickman, DFS's former chief information officer. DFS continues to hire in the U.S. but only for certain key functions. When it needs more IT support at peak times or for special projects, DFS is more likely to turn to Cognizant. "We're going to go to them first," Glickman says...
Kerry said AIDS casualties will not peak until 2030 and that “we need to be investing in education worldwide” to help people stem the disease’s spread...
...climax to denouement. Being good pupils, they constructed a now-familiar narrative around the candidate, first building him into an outsider-turned-frontrunner and then relentlessly tearing him down. The storyline bore little relationship to the facts of the campaign, but after reporters and editors decided that the peak had been reached—roughly ten months before the general election, and before a single vote had been cast in a primary or caucus—they imposed on their audience a diet of character defamation coupled with early pronouncements of death, making Dean into an increasingly difficult choice...
...Many parties climax toward the 1 [a.m.] hour. Having the parties end then just cuts it off at its peak,” Bercu said...
...press conference, Roberts and Comcast Cable president Stephen Burke promised they would increase Disney's cash flow by up to $1.2 billion in three years. "You have to be reasonably skeptical about that," says Moffett. Yet Disney's 2003 net income is down $583 million from its 1998 peak of $1.85 billion, and Disney shares hovered at about $24, down from a high of $43.63 in April 2000, before a run-up last week on takeover speculation. The pair underlined Disney's shortcomings. Among them: the ABC television network, mired in fourth place in the ratings war, made just...