Word: secretiveness
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...down staffing. College kids might have to look for jobs outside the retail sector to generate extra Christmas cash. Best Buy is bringing in 16,000 to 20,000 holiday hires this season, down from 26,000 in 2007. (The good news for hopeful or clueless males: Victoria's Secret and Toys "R" Us say they'll keep last year's levels to ensure top-notch service...
...Kroft like a mantra) on giving their daughters a "normal" life. It's only fitting that Malia and Sasha are big fans of Hannah Montana (on which they were offered but haven't accepted a cameo): the Miley Cyrus show is a fantasy about a girl celebrity with a secret life as an ordinary...
...secret that I and countless others have roundly criticized the Ivy League for prohibiting its football teams from entering the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs...
...While there are no stipulations on the specifics of the business plans, it's no secret that Republicans on the Hill and many industry observers believe the Big Three desperately need a change of leadership. So far, though, none of the companies have given any indication that they are willing to clean house at the top in order to curry favor with Washington. If they don't get enough votes to pass the bailout package, that refusal to put someone different at the wheel may prove to be a very costly miscalculation...
...treachery at one another. The deal currently on the table calls for the U.S. to withdraw its troops by the end of 2011 and gives the Iraqi government a much greater say in what U.S. troops do until then. Opponents of the deal warn that the government has signed secret codicils that give the U.S. far greater leeway than advertised and may keep American troops in Iraq indefinitely. Ajil Abdel-Hussein, an MP loyal to the Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, suggested the government was trying to lay the ground for a "new [U.S.] occupation of Iraq." (See pictures...