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...Germany, where its 95 stores command only a 1.1% share of the food-sales market, Wal-Mart is floundering in red ink. The company won't say what its German losses total-analysts peg them at a whopping $200 million a year-but admits profitability is at least two years away. In Britain, Asda is a successful, moneymaking enterprise, but analysts doubt it can realize the ambitious targets set by Wal-Mart to cover the high price of admission. In its fiscal year just before the acquisition, Asda had operating profits of $702 million, and Wal-Mart vows to double...
...only twins with differences in our family. My father, a writer and former diplomat, had an identical twin brother, Francis, who was a right-brained banker. Francis, who died in 1992, also had identical twin daughters. My cousin Rose is an intense adventurist while her sister Peg is softer and more traditional...
...sign that Ecevit's fragile coalition - he was elected with only 22 percent of the vote - was falling apart, and the financial markets immediately went wild. The stock market and the currency, the lira, both crashed, and within a day the central bank had to lift the dollar peg on the currency because it couldn't afford to support it anymore. Of course, if Ecevit had kept his mouth shut, this wouldn't have happened...
...only twins with differences in our family. My father, a writer and former diplomat, had an identical twin brother, Francis, who was a right-brained banker. Francis, who died in 1992, also had identical twin daughters. My cousin Rose is an intense adventurist while her sister Peg is softer and more traditional...
...kind of like putting a square peg in a round hole," she said...