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...been somewhat of a rough week. Thursday?s sales announcements from retailers indicated a mass migration from Macy?s to WalMart (hence the slogan-borrowing above) as consumers showed signs of getting stingy with their money. And although productivity reclaimed its former glory Tuesday with a 2.5 percent hike after a contraction in the first quarter, that was mostly because producing companies got around to firing all the workers that were still manning halted production lines back in March...
...Still unknown are the long term effects of pledges - whether, as proponents insist, they will lead to happier, healthier marriages. Bearman is currently at work on a follow-up tracking the same students into their twenties. But judging by an informal survey, some pledgers may have a rough road ahead. Been, for one, whose website lists his favorite hobby as dating and favorite comfort item as his waterbed, has run into romantic troubles of late. "Survivor kind of killed my dating life," he says. Perhaps it was all that talk of abstaining...
...like to thank their relatives and friends for all the great support they have shown them since they met two years ago," said a McCartney spokesman, who added that McCartney proposed on one knee with a diamond-and-sapphire ring bought in India. McCartney and Mills endured a few rough years before meeting. He admitted he contemplated suicide following wife Linda's death from breast cancer in 1998; Mills was in a freak motorcycle accident that took her leg in 1993. Together they have overcome an age difference almost vast enough to impress Robert Evans...
...with names like Plan A (inspired by a popular Jackie Chan action flick), they have cut prices by a gut-wrenching 40%. "I'm the worst one when it comes to challenging all the manufacturers with price slashing," Meijin founder Sher Tak Fa boasts with bravado typical in this rough-and-tumble industry. "I want to show my power...
...missing intern said this past week was particularly agonizing because of reports that a body had been found. The tip, delivered to a web site, WeTip.com, sent news media scurrying but it turned out to be bogus. "I'm not holding up very well. It's been a very rough week. Very rough. Very tired." And she reiterated her consistent plea: "I want my daughter found alive. I want the truth to come...