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...Blame it on Japan's ever reluctant consumer. Household spending has long been the missing piece in Japan's recovery puzzle: every time sustainable domestic demand seems to be around the corner, wallets snap shut again. Part of the problem this time is that companies have been loath to share their record profits with employees. "Economic recovery started in early 2002, and worker income still has not risen," says Jeffrey Young, head of economic and market analysis at Nikko Citigroup in Tokyo. As a result, domestic spending in the third quarter edged up only...
Whether it is a waist-length corduroy snap-up jacket with a white faux fur-trimmed hood, or a formal mid-calf black down jacket with a real fur-trimmed hood, scarves have thus been rendered unnecessary (or supplemental.) “The fox fur on my evening coat actually serves as a perfect neck-warmer so I don’t need to wear a scarf,” says Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06, “which I guess is sort of useful...
...people, or one gallery for every 34 residents, the city council of Carmel-by-the-Sea voted last month to limit the number of new galleries moving into town. Carmel's leaders decided that the city, which earns no sales-tax revenue when out-of-state tourists snap up a watercolor, has reached aesthetic overkill...
Both Harvard and Yale boast one player who has essentially taken every important snap on the season for his team. Crimson fans know all about captain Ryan Fitzpatrick and his sensational career. Fitzpatrick has accounted for 16 total touchdowns while transfixing opposing defenses with his ability to make plays on the run. Coming into the season, many would have said Yale fifth-year senior Alvin Cowan could make a legitimate case that he was right there with Fitzy, but his inability to put Yale over the top this year has dealt a blow to the Bulldogs. He has thrown...
...icing on the cake was a fake field-goal late in the third quarter. Holder Robert Balkema picked up the snap and threw to a slanting Everett, who rumbled in for the score and sealed the win in extending the lead...