Word: quarterly
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...Many analysts believe that the store-operations background of new CEO Mike Duke will keep investors quite happy. Though the recession finally caught up to Walmart last quarter, when the company reported a 1.2% drop in U.S. same-store sales, Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1. Joseph Feldman, retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, estimates that each store costs Walmart between $25 and $30 million. In order to continue the momentum that...
...says demand. And that's a good thing. As the credit crisis and global recession eases, more and more consumers, and industrial users like electronics manufacturers, are buying gold again. According to World Gold Council, demand for gold, while down from a year ago, rose 19% in the second quarter vs. the first three months of the year. Indeed, gold prices might be rising in anticipation of the normal holiday buying season...
...more imminent danger comes from the annihilation of forests - especially tropical rain forests, which house a richer variety of animals and plants than anywhere else on the planet. Papua New Guinea lost more than a quarter of its forests from 1972 to 2002, and the BBC team noted that trees were being logged just 20 miles from where the Bosavi woolly rat was found. As of 2005, some 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres) of primary, untouched forest were being leveled annually - and each time a rain forest is burned or logged, it takes with it species we'll never...
...support the BSC’s decision to save money in a way that will not diminish the services it provides by upping its tuition rates from $4 to $7 per hour (while the rate increases to $14 per hour after the first 10 hours, apparently fewer than a quarter of tutoring requests fall into this category). Critical to our support of the increase, however, is the continued role of the Financial Aid Office, which will continue to assist students in need...
...season against the Bulldogs.CLAREMONT 10, HARVARD 9The Crimson concluded Saturday’s action with a disappointing loss as the squad watched a two-goal lead evaporate in the second half.The offense clicked early for Harvard en route to a 6-4 lead, but a series of third quarter miscues opened the door for a 6-0 run by the Stags.“That [Claremont game] was the toughest loss to swallow, because it was within our reach,” Atkinson said. “We were feeling good, but in the third quarter we lost focus?...