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...just 4.3%. Storch also insists that the company won't clear shelf space dedicated to toys in order to build these mini-supermarkets. Instead, Toys "R" Us will cease selling clothes for kids over the age of 4. The company will use that space for the "R" Markets and realign aisles to sell even more toys. "It essentially replaces an unproductive business," Storch says. "We never want to lose our way. This is an enhancement, as opposed to a strategic shift...
Those who can't wait to see 2008 come to a close will have to endure an extra second - literally. On Dec. 31, just before 7 p.m. Eastern time, a leap second will be added to atomic clocks around the world to realign Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the international standard for atomic clocks, with Earth's rotational period. The reason for the intermittent mismatch between these two measurements lies not with the clocks but with the movement of the planet, which is decelerating at an average rate of two milliseconds...
...cover a lot of territory in this book, but it seems like the unifying message is to realign ourselves with the views of the country's Founding Fathers...
...between the unprecedented and the familiar, it is plain to see, with each passing day, all the various parts of the normally far-flung party establishment pick themselves up and then realign and reform under Obama's banner. Labor unions, interest groups, party fund raisers, national committeemen and -women, elected officials and of course the remaining superdelegates - one by one, they are moving in Obama's direction, both because the outcome is no longer in doubt and because no one wants to be the last to come on board. Party fund raisers started this process last week; others will follow...
...trends that have created so much damage. Of course, we faculty members do not pay the high cost of journals ourselves. We expect our libraries to do it—with all the negative consequences that I have mentioned. The motion before the FAS provides a way to realign the means of communication in a way that will favor learning. It will be a first step toward freeing scholarship from the stranglehold of commercial publishers by making it freely available through our own university repository. Instead of being the passive victims of the system, we can seize the initiative...