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...Jensen, 46, who was managing a 209,000-sq.-ft. Meijer in Howell, Mich., when a Wal-Mart moved in across the street in 2000. Jensen responded with six-hour price specials, supersales and coupons galore, and when those initiatives failed to pull the store out of its death spiral, he got employees to start offering product demonstrations in every department, including fashion shows. It took a full 12 months for sales to climb back to pre-Wal-Mart levels, and, says Jensen, the most successful measure that year was also the simplest: "Talking to people, making them feel...
...would require dispatching several thousand British soldiers to Iraq. Blair's strong instinct is to accede. But British officers fear that what one calls the "Fort Apache tactics" of American forces, most notably in Fallujah before last week's pullout, are starting to suck the country into a spiral of bloody resistance and bloodier response. General Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, alluded to this two weeks ago when he said, "We must be able to fight with the Americans, but we don't have to fight as the Americans." A Whitehall official said Jackson's remarks were...
Clearly, Tomassoni had a great run in the early ‘90s. Yet his teams quickly went on a downward spiral. After the ‘94 campaign, Tomassoni’s squads posted five straight non-winning seasons, a first in Harvard men’s hockey history. Still, Tomassoni was not dismissed...
...they are shifted, some thrust forward, others back, which accounts for the building's irregular silhouette. Alternating with the platforms are four open areas for a children's library, reading rooms and reference desks. The largest of the platforms, the one holding the books, is actually a continuous, gentle spiral of shelves, a kind of interior avenue for the library stroller. Rather than segregate different subject areas on separate floors, the spiral presents the entire collection in a continuous flow designed to encourage people to move freely among topics, to have those serendipitous encounters Koolhaas loves...
...party at the Bagatelle and re-created a turn-of-the-century gala at the Opera Garnier. But more important, he has changed the way we dress, the very proportions of our clothes, cutting dresses and jackets on the bias--against the grain of the fabric--so that they spiral around the body and give women a sinuous, sexier shape...