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...company. Most of Jamba's 749 stores are in California, where the housing market is particularly harsh and where unemployment is at a 15-year high. Jamba announced plans to cut $25 million in costs for 2009, while opening 50 franchise outlets at colleges, airports and malls. To spark sales, the company has introduced oatmeal to its breakfast menu. Can that lift a struggling chain? Unfortunately, you probably shouldn't bet on it. These days, who has enough money for oatmeal...
...Chinese zodiac animals, each of which is subdivided by five elements signaling different qualities - wood, earth, water, fire and metal. This year's ox is an earth ox. That may sound innocuous enough, but according to one astrological interpretation, financial markets are in dire need of a spark from the fire element to set stocks blazing. For other fortune tellers, the worry is absence of metal, an element with which they make a simple astrological connection to money. A metal year, they say, brings plenty of gold. An earth year buries all that lucre under piles of dirt...
...examination of the board's activities may take some time and may set a precedent for how executives' health issues get disclosed. And it will certainly spark a wide debate about whether Apple did the right thing...
...those who claim that the messy bureaucracy usually involved in the quadrennial transportation legislation would hardly be an effective spark for a deeply troubled economy, Oberstar insists this time is different. All projects will be required to have broken ground and to report back to Congress on their progress within 60 days of the bill's enactment. They must report again in an additional 90 days and once again 60 days after that. All these reports will be combed over by the Obama Administration and Congress and will be made public online. "I've never seen anything like this," Oberstar...
...give them credit. They outworked us. When we fell behind, they didn’t get cocky, and they didn’t get away from their game.”Fraser scored his third and fourth goals of the season and provided the only offensive spark for Harvard all night. His first goal put the Crimson on the scoreboard at 4:52 in the second period when Fraser fired a shot from the slot that beat Blasé on the left side inside the post.The co-captain’s rush...