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...face a looming challenge for every new retail concept: once your idea proves itself, competitors flock, knowing that the initial risk has been taken. Roth is now facing serial cereal challengers--he calls them copycats--that have popped up looking for their own bite of this emerging restaurant segment. And like siblings squabbling over the last bowl of Froot Loops, the eateries are getting into a messy fight...
Will you watch Katie Couric? I think she'll probably read the teleprompter the same way the others did. The evening news really only has one news segment now. I heard Elizabeth Vargas say the other night, "Is the U.S. planning a nuclear attack on Iran with nuclear weapons? We'll take a closer look." Usually it's "Is there a better way to lower your cholesterol?" These people used to complain that they only had 30 minutes. But obviously they don't really want to fill more than seven...
...Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspections have rated it at the highest (best) regulatory classification. This is attributable to everyone in the organization having a clear safety focus, making conservative decisions, and doing timely maintenance and upgrades.The op-ed reflected no understanding of our recent search for two small fuel rod segments in the plant’s spent fuel pool. In 2004, less than two years after Entergy purchased the plant, we identified a record keeping problem—apparently created in 1979—that resulted in a misleading description of the location of a small fuel segment container...
...aren't yet passing the state exam. For example, a North Carolina school will now get credit if a student's scores improve from 40 to 65 (on a scale of 100) from third grade to fourth. Before this change, the school could get credit only if the entire segment of students - fourth-grade Hispanic students in math, for example - improved their scores. North Carolina estimates that about 40 of the 932 schools in the state that didn't show improvement in test scores under the traditional parameters of the law would be considered successful under the new rules...
...control” and “a little bit exhausted” last night. Yesterday morning, he and Macniven appeared on CBS’s “The Early Show” and “Regis and Kelly,” filmed a segment for the CBS website, and spoke with national reporters. Averell said he is now in negotiations with an unnamed network to create a travel show staring the duo and also hopes for a live-action remake of 1980s cartoon series “DuckTales,” starring Averell as Scrooge McDuck...