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...what's going on? First off, food deflation in 2009 impacted the entire grocery business. However, a strategic shift from Walmart backfired a bit. In order to implement its "Project Impact" plan, which called for less clutter in the aisles and more space given to other product categories like toys and electronics, the store offered a narrower selection of brands and package sizes in its grocery section, which accounted for some 45% of its store space. This move had a two-pronged effect. Some shoppers, faced with a less robust grocery selection from Walmart, decided to make an extra trip...
...yard clippings into lawn fertilizer. The city desperately needed to upgrade its 1980s-built anaerobic digesters (you can see the foam insulation chipping off) and now has the money to do so, thanks to a 30-year interest-free loan from the federal stimulus package. To get the project funded, the city applied to the Texas Water Development Board, which had been handed stimulus money by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...down economy, plenty of people assume responsibility for reinvention. Lindsey Spratt lost her job as an assistant audio engineer and is now studying to be a chef at the Texas Culinary Academy. Rob Carruthers was laid off from a job as a project manager at a software company and is putting his dual engineering-business background to use as a consultant to tech start-ups and schools. (See "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...speech to the International Olympic Committee in English - a first for a Kremlin leader before a Western audience - and promised members that the Sochi Games would be "safe, enjoyable and memorable." He even guaranteed that there would be snow. With the Olympics now seen as Putin's pet project, it may be harder for him to divert the blame if things don't go as planned...
...fact of his history. He will forever be associated with Iran-Contra, and that means he will forever be associated with public deception. I don't think that he was ever going to be a credible spokesperson for a project with this kind of creepy ambition, if I can call it that. So it was sort of doomed from the start...