Word: shapira
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...price every step of the way, allowing them to gain market share in the electronics sector. Walmart was especially competitive. "Walmart's [average] prices were 3.5% below Amazon, 4.2% below Target and down double digits compared to both Kmart and Toys "R" Us," said Goldman Sachs analyst Adrianne Shapira, in a note. "Walmart left no doubt as to who was the pricing leader...
...even agreeing to join in peace talks with the Palestinians. Olmert was warned off from visiting the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where the shootings occurred, and his leftist education minister Yuli Tamir, who went to pay her respects, was chased away with shouts of "traitor and murderer". Rabbi Yaacov Shapira, head of the seminary, made a speech on Sunday urging Israel not to give away "one clod of soil" to the Palestinians. The scene is hardly set for compromise...
...years after his 10-year term as Israel's chief rabbi, Avraham Shapira was considered a sage by the religious right. Yet for many Israelis, the Talmudic scholar was a hard-line zealot whose theology--that Israel was land given by God to the Jews--anchored the settlers' movement and helped bring about the assassination of peace advocate Yitzhak Rabin. In 2005, despite his call for soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate disputed land or else risk disaster, the "disengagement" succeeded with little violence...
Many of those with missing friends or relatives cannot bear to sit and wait while the scientists complete their work. Idan Geva and some other young professionals flew to Thailand from Israel to search for two friends--Aya Shapira, 27, and her boyfriend Uzi Sagi, 28. "They were staying somewhere in the Khao Lak area," says Geva. "We're searching the area for some kind of clue." Working on little food or sleep, Geva's group has pored over lists of victims on a website so heavily trafficked by bereaved relatives that it sometimes crashes and has examined hundreds...
...interesting clue finally emerged. In a Khao Lak dive shop, Sagi's and Shapira's names appeared on a waiting list for a diving trip, along with their resort name and room number. Geva's group--which met with members of ZAKA, an Israeli volunteer organization famous for collecting body parts of terrorism victims to give them proper Jewish burials--combed through the wrecked resort but found nothing more. The pair had perhaps been washed out to sea. Geva's only hope is that experts will eventually identify the two on the basis of the dental records and DNA samples...