Word: supermarketer
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...find it on the list of banned substances anyway. Still, you’d be hard pressed to find another college hockey player with this secret weapon. It’s almost intangible, practically indescribable—and located in the condiment aisle of your local supermarket...
...global business means global regulation, too spooked. There are no reliable stats on how widespread the practice is in Europe, but price pressure on insurers after the scandal could lead to lower profit margins. It's a reminder that global business means global regulation, too Bargain Hunting Europe's supermarket chains have plenty of trouble in store: a mixed bag of weak consumer spending, pressure from no-frills grocers and domestic price wars have hit retailers at the checkout. After warning that it was headed for its first loss in its 135-year history, British grocer J Sainsbury pledged...
There's more at stake than the fate of one railroad company or getting a carload of molasses to the supermarket on time. The nation's four largest railroads, UP, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX and Norfolk Southern, are a linchpin of the U.S. economy; when they don't run smoothly, it's tough for the economy to grow. And lately, for companies whose bottom line depends on moving goods on schedule, the situation has become dire. UPS, the huge parcel service, was recently forced to shift some shipments to trucks. Dow Chemical, which supplies, among other things, chlorine...
...same time, we are seeing the emergence of smaller, brighter and cheaper data projectors. The technology in supermarket bar-code scanners is being transformed to create miniature high-resolution color laser projectors the size of a fingertip. Within a couple of years you will see them integrated into your cell phone and PDA; if you want to view data that won't fit on such small screens or if you want to look at the information with someone else, you can use those devices to project it onto any wall, tabletop or other surface so it appears as large...
...rule out the possibility to intervene when intervention is called for." Last month Sarkozy was in interventionist mode when he contended that low corporate tax rates in the European Union's 10 new member states were unfairly sucking jobs from the west. His solution was as simple as the supermarket price cut: either the low-tax E.U. nations raise their rates or risk losing billions in E.U. development aid (see Au Revoir Les Jobs). "I'm not against outsourcing per se, I'm just demanding that the competition driving it is fair," Sarkozy says. "Nations can't claim...