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...many ways, the $17 billion Federated-May merger is the logical evolution of decades in which the industry failed to respond to customer complaints that department stores were boring, the service nonexistent and the merchandise ubiquitous without being interesting. "Department stores have lost sight of their customer. It's that simple," says Janet Hoffman, a San Francisco--based retail strategist for Accenture. Sales tumbled, and chain after chain of historic, family-owned retailers--Gimbels, Woodward & Lothrop, Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward--closed their doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were...
...disallowed goal is something that’s a little frustrating because kids work so hard, and goals aren’t easy to come by,” Yale coach Hilary Witt said, “But the officials have to make their calls. If they lose sight of the puck, there’s not much you can do.” The goal had appeared to come off the stick of freshman Crysti Howser, who plagued the Crimson defense for the entire game. She finished with 10 shots and a number of times led the offensive charge...
...outside flew over Martin’s right shoulder aand into the top shelf of the net, but was disallowed due to an apparent high-sticking. Another preemptive whistle, with about two minutes remaining in extra time, erased a game-winning goal for the Bulldogs when the official lost sight of the puck.In a contest in which offense was so scarce, and with Martin playing so well, the almost-scores were difficult for Yale coach Hilary Witt to swallow.“Disallowed goals is something that is very frustrating because kids work so hard,” Witt said...
...decide without oversight who the enemy is, there is nothing to prevent his spying on war protesters, Time reporters or anyone else on his personal enemies list. The same objection applies to the President's assumption of the authority to arrest suspected terrorists and hold them out of sight: there is simply no way to tell if presidential power is being abused. Klein touts the successes of the spying program and laments that its cover has been blown, but getting the approval that the wiretapping law requires would not have impeded the program one whit. As for the newly cautious...
...want [FemSex] to evolve to meet the needs of the student body,” Montgomery said. “It’s a creative process without a specific end goal in sight besides getting diverse groups together to talk about sexual issues...