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...Nevertheless, retailers continue to tie one-day in-store sales to Black Friday. In the Internet era, bloggers race to obtain leaked circulars and post them online weeks in advance of Thanksgiving. Many forums and websites chart the deals, helping shoppers make a plan of attack for the big day. And attack they will - the National Retail Federation anticipates 134 million people will hit the stores on Thanksgiving weekend. After the deaths last year, there's an added focus on making sure stores are ready to handle the crowds. Walmart extended hours to keep stores open on Thanksgiving...
...weeks ago, Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd unveiled an ambitious, far-reaching plan to reform regulation of America's financial system and quickly found himself facing a brick wall of opposition erected by Republicans, regulators and financial-industry bigwigs. Now he's trying to work with Republicans to get the thing moving again. (Read "Financial Regulation: Way Easier Than Health Care...
...Afghan government and its international partners. U.S. President Barack Obama's frequently leaked deliberations over his new Afghan strategy indicate to us here in Kabul that an exit strategy is being prioritized over a sustainable solution for a peaceful, stable future in Afghanistan. Those that haven't already left plan to do so in the coming months. These are people who came to Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003, lured not by money but a determination to do well by this country that had been so long neglected. They started businesses, only to see them fail because of the endemic corruption...
There was no national plan. Departments tended to work side by side in silence. There was a need for a planning commission so we had an overarching plan for the country. So we created one. That also speaks to the need for the leadership to be well informed...
TIME: What is [former finance minister and now planning commission head] Trevor Manuel's new role in this new set-up? Is he, as some say, effectively a Prime Minister? Zuma: He is not a Prime Minister. He had the very specific task of helping me and the country to work out a national plan, to ask: where shall we be by this time? Where is the country going? His role is also to monitor and evaluate. The reason Trevor was appointed was because he had been minister of finance and had an understanding of the workings of all government...