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...choosy new ones by paying more attention to refreshing its fashions. Pete Nordstrom argues that last year's shifts in placement have made it possible for the company to respond more swiftly to the latest trends. And he takes comfort from what happened in the early 1980s, when Nordstrom shook up customers by bringing in Liz Claiborne lines and moving other brands around. Although disruptive at the time, those moves helped set the stage for years of robust profit growth...
...only thing being faked in the Meadowlands. Nets officials admitted Friday that they had blasted recorded crowd noise through arena speakers to to pump up the volume at home games. "Some of this stuff is embarrassing," coach John Calipari told the New York Daily News. "I just shook my head. I said, "Do we need to do that?' " said Calipari, who learned of the high-decibel hoax early in the season. The interesting thing for the Nets (or the New Jersey Mavericks--New Jersey and Dallas virtually swapped rosters earlier this year) is that attendance is actually up this year...
That would be President Sali Berisha, a hard-line conservative who has used the past six weeks of demonstrations as an excuse to tighten his personal grip on power. With protests over the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes convulsing Albania, Berisha dismissed the government and shook up the armed forces. Last week he declared a state of emergency and then had his rubber-stamp Parliament re-elect him President. Protesters reacted by switching their targets from the Ponzi schemes to the one-man rule of Berisha. Simmering economic differences between the poorer north and the south boiled over, and several...
...18th century, a crisis shook the paper-making industry because cotton rags became extremely scarce. In the 19th century, mills turned to making paper from wood instead...
...Central Military Commission. But Jiang did not let it rest at titles. He went on to build a network beholden to him. He fired scores of civilian, military and police officials and filled their jobs with his own appointees. He promoted Shanghai colleagues to the Politburo and shook up regional party organizations. During the past seven years he has done very well for a leader supposedly without a power base...