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...slower. They're not buying the big stuff," said a sales person at Macys flagship store in Herald Square, who asked not to be named. A $400 diamond bracelet had been marked down to $99, but there were more sales people standing near it than customers. Instead, shortly after 7 a.m., a crowd was hovering around a display of costume jewelry priced at $9.99 each...
...brought on extra staff to help principals navigate the byzantine termination process and says an unprecedented number of teachers have already been put on notice. But she cannot give teachers the huge raises she proposed unless the union agrees to a new contract. So this approach will be slower, more litigious and less inspiring. In other words, it will be all stick and no carrot. It's hard to say if anyone else would have been able to persuade the union to trade away tenure for cash bonuses, but Rhee's sometimes dismissive attitude made it harder for some teachers...
...People were ready to come back and race hard after Heps, and we just wanted to go out there and have fun.” The Crimson women accomplished this goal and more, turning the difficult conditions into an advantage. “Conditions did make times slower and made it more difficult,” Richardson explained. “But we were just stomping around in the mud having a great time. That’s what cross country is all about, and we actually enjoyed [the challenge].” Harvard’s male competitors...
...number of agents in the past year who have lost their houses to foreclosure. Many, too, have just decided to leave the business. In the past two years, the ranks of agents in his offices have shrunk to 130 from a high of 170. The slower market of the past two years has also forced him to cut costs. He closed one of his four offices and eliminated most his print advertising. In order to survive, Huebner says many of remaining brokers have changed what they do. They have gotten out of the residential sales businesses, and into commercial real...
...have much of a theme or unifying style; in fact, it jumps immediately from a song about guns to another about a coffee high before ambling into a few songs featuring Lyrica Anderson’s vocals. The album seems to dip in the middle, with slower, more melodic and atmospheric songs, like “The Train” and “Shine Again,” but then the mood is broken by the tenth track, “Pea Knuckle,” a skit featuring a crass British drug dealer. In most tracks, however, there...