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...There really is a crisis in the industry," says Gary Giblen, head analyst at boutique Manhattan research firm CL King & Associates. The sky started falling--along with same-store sales--in 2001, as alienated shoppers began steering their grocery carts not only toward Wal-Mart's food-laden Supercenters but also toward warehouse clubs, discount chains, drugstores, dollar stores and, on the high end, trendy salutes to organic produce. "Conventional supermarkets really have no reason to exist anymore," says Giblen. "They're basically becoming convenience stores...
...Stanford, in 1997. They will still own about a third of the corporation and there will be two tiers of stock so that not all votes are created equal. That said, their engineer-centric company will be under extraordinary pressure to grow at a pace that can warrant its sky-high valuation, and any missteps, such as its recent release of G-mail, which rankled privacy zealots, will probably not be greeted joyfully on Wall Street...
...sky is falling, chances are pretty good that Dr. Timothy Spahr will be among the first to know...
...Center website, before heading to dinner with a friend. But while he enjoyed his “only-once-a-year” night on the town, the alarms began to sound worldwide. An amateur astronomer forecast that one of Spahr’s potentials was rapidly approaching the sky somewhere over the Northern Hemisphere. Based on the information available, a 25 percent chance of a collision within days was quickly confirmed...
...Armageddon,” said Spahr. “For Armageddon, I helped them do a promo, and we tried to tell them that it was pretty dumb. A Texas-sized asteroid was going to hit in what, two weeks? That would be as bright as Jupiter in the sky. You would go outside and go, ‘Oh crap, an asteroid...