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...Sales have stayed about steady at Oona’s even though White is seeing “a lot more competition” from other vintage stores. Her big season is Halloween, when customers come in to snatch up flapper and flower child ensembles, but Oona’s also carries clothing suitable for daily wear. She said that she has seen a marked upswing in everyday men’s clothing, since men’s fashions rarely change over the years...
...from civil society to form a "third way" to break from the country's two-party system. That project failed, as did efforts to weaken the begums' networks of patronage that assured their grip on power. After two years out in the cold, Hasina or Zia could very well snatch the reins again, and perhaps roll back the charges leveled against them and key allies...
...early morning shift on Black Friday—the “official” first shopping day of the holiday season. But when shoppers forced their way through the doors at 5:00 a.m., Damour was thrown back onto the linoleum tiles and trampled by customers eager to snatch the best bargains they could find. He suffered fatal injuries crushed beneath a chaotic stampede of more than 2,000 fanatical buyers...
...again. This year Anacostia has a new principal, and Rhodes admits that the school is functioning better. "All the children are wearing their uniforms," he says. "No kids are in the hallways." If you come to school without your uniform on, a security guard or an assistant principal will "snatch you up and just send you home." All the computers in his Microsoft Word classroom now work...
Here are some other trends affecting MBA grads in the current climate for better or worse: •Opportunistic Recruiting MBA career advisers say smaller firms and boutique investment companies are taking advantage of Wall Street's weakness to try to snatch up the smartest young talent. • Geographic Retrenchment Some financial firms that do have slots to fill this fall will cut back on the number of schools they visit. Rather than covering all corners of the country, some firms are focusing on a smaller core group of schools. That may hurt schools further afield that ordinarily benefit from companies...