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...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 to the neighborhood supermarket, or even dollar stores, to take care of their basic needs. Plus, brands that were spurned by Walmart ran into the arms of its competitors, who were willing to compete aggressively with the retailer on price. "Suppliers don't care about going to war with Walmart because they've been stiffed by its new procurement practices," says retail consultant Burt Flickinger III, managing director of Strategic Resources Group, "and they...
...proud of the year we were able to accomplish this season,” Amaker said. “It’s a tough way to end with our seniors, but nonetheless I thought our kids gave great effort—but we ran into a team tonight that played exceptionally well...
...this story?Back in 2002 and 2003, I was covering technology and the government, and I was writing about the Total Information Awareness program, which he was running at the Defense Department. I was never able to get an interview with him, but after he left government, I ran into him at a conference. I said, "Would you ever be willing to sit down with me and do interviews?" and he said he would do it on the condition that I would come out to his house and we would do multiple interviews and it would...
...Murray expects White to have adequate campaign funding because of his connections with deep-pocket donors, support from the Democratic Governors' Association and, perhaps, his own personal resources - he gave his first mayoral campaign a $2 million kick-start. (White, a lawyer, worked for an oil company and then ran a Houston energy investment group after leaving the White House.) Plus, White is a disciplined campaigner who will run a focused campaign, Murray says. (See pictures of Tea Party tax protests...
...have recognized that no single ethnic group or sect could govern peacefully and effectively without making alliances across traditional fault lines. The big parties put forward diverse coalitions preaching national unity, even if each retained a core identity well known to voters: Maliki's State of Law coalition ran on a law-and-order platform but drew primarily from a moderate Shi'ite base; Allawi's Iraqiya ran on a similar platform but ran strongest among Sunnis. But even if Iraq's politicians pretended to have outgrown identity politics, voters either didn't get the memo or saw through...