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...later than usual. Compared with last year, stores now have five fewer shopping days and one less weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Looming layoffs and tightening credit have crushed consumer confidence, making shoppers more discerning than ever. Before buying a gift, 71% of shoppers ask themselves, Is this a smart use of my money? according to an October survey on how America shops, conducted by WSL Strategic Retail, a New York City consultancy. Deloitte's annual holiday survey showed that almost 60% of consumers expect to reduce their spending and that people are planning on buying fewer gifts...
...used again by student groups in the future. University Hall is also tasking the Common Spaces Steering Committee with exploring large party space in Cambridge. The Houses should do their part in coordination with University Hall and be more open to allowing student groups to use House space. Smart renovations could make many House spaces more conducive to smaller parties to accommodate students with small rooms.The SLAO should also develop a system to streamline the process for throwing parties and keep students informed of decisions on student life. With only four employees, the SLAO does not have adequate staffing...
...this movie may be surprised; besides the romance, there's a trio of bad vamps who wreak havoc, and a fast-moving game of vampire baseball. "The teenage girls are the early adapters, but that doesn't mean the train will stop," says Hardwicke. "Besides, young guys are smart enough to go where there are a lot of hot young girls." After all, a love affair with a fictional vampire will have to end someday...
...need look no further than the catastrophe of 1960’s-era urban renewal projects to recognize the pitfalls of talking about cities in purely urban contexts. During that period, a number of smart people came up with a number of intelligent plans for scouring out city cores based on the best information available about the housing, business, and social needs of cities, as in Ed Logue’s plans for downtown New Haven. Despite the best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop...
...freshman Senator from Illinois and was invaluable in helping him learn the arcane folkways of the Capitol. Obama once told me, "My chief of staff in the Senate, Pete Rouse, Tom Daschle's old chief of staff, is as well connected and well known and as popular and as smart and savvy a person as there is on Capitol Hill...