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...following week, jeered at the suspect but at least in the presence of the Reuters photographer did not beat him. 4) Two brigadier generals from Karbala's provincial police were in charge of the scene. 5) The weapon: a Toyota Mark sedan (costs $6,000 when new). Likely target: the nearby Imam Hussein Shrine, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites...
...chain loop--is better suited to developing economies like Mexico, Brazil and China, where it is doing well, than to mature markets like the U.S. and Japan, where it isn't. In the U.S., same-store sales increases are bumping along at 1% to 2% a month, while rival Target, the fashion-forward, design-centric glamour girl of discounting, runs up 2% to 4% monthly increases. Wall Street complains that Wal-Mart spends too much money opening the same old big boxes, so much so that Wal-Mart announced it will cut store growth and even trim store size...
...Mart's ardent, union-backed critics such as Wal-Mart Watch and Wake Up Wal-Mart, these improvements are just crumbs from the corporate table. Wal-Mart's national hourly-wage average of $10.74 is more or less competitive with Target or Kmart, but its total package still lags behind union competitors in the supermarket industry...
With its careful mix of aspirational glamour and boundary-pushing, the new channel is crucial to MTV's global expansion: in its target markets in the region, 65% of the population is under 25. Connecting with those young people means more than just promoting pop culture, says Abdullatif al-Sayegh, 35, the CEO of Arab Media Group (AMG), which holds the MTV license in the region. "We are not introducing a music channel," he insists. "We are introducing a platform for youth, where we can bring up a lot of issues and solve them...
...reports from the admissions office suggest that this has been the case, although official statistics will not be available until this May, after the Class of 2012 has formally enrolled. Specifically, by eliminating early admission, the admissions office was able to recapture six weeks of travel time for carefully targeted recruitment trips, many of which are conducted with the University of Virginia and Princeton, colleges that also ended their early admissions programs. The Office is relying on the research of recently departed professor of economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and professor of public policy Christopher N. Avery...