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Walmart and Amazon were the wild cards, though, as both challenged electronics retailers on price every step of the way, allowing them to gain market share in the electronics sector. Walmart was especially competitive. "Walmart's [average] prices were 3.5% below Amazon, 4.2% below Target and down double digits compared to both Kmart and Toys "R" Us," said Goldman Sachs analyst Adrianne Shapira, in a note. "Walmart left no doubt as to who was the pricing leader...
Neal added that there was no target figure for participation in the program or any projections relating to the amount of budgetary relief that could be in store...
...West Point speech Dec. 1 was mute on his plans for the growing Afghan army, which remains the best - some would say only - way to bring home American personnel. His vagueness on the question of increasing the Afghan forces was understandable: the U.S. and its allies have already boosted target troop levels for the Afghan army four times, and the U.S. commander there, General Stanley McChrystal, wants the target number doubled yet again...
...Maclean and others, one of the most telling numbers in the Administration's new five-year PEPfAR strategy is 4 million - the number of people it is targeting to have on treatment by fiscal year 2014. That's far lower than the 7 million target a coalition of researchers urged the Administration to set, and the goal represents a slowdown from the recent pace of treatment expansion. Since PEPfAR was first implemented in 2004, its affiliated programs have expanded treatment to approximately 400,000 individuals each year. The new target would lower that number to 320,000. After the stunning...
...unlike the great powers of old, we have not sought world domination. Our union was founded in resistance to oppression. We do not seek to occupy other nations. We will not claim another nation's resources or target other peoples because their faith or ethnicity is different from ours. What we have fought for - and what we continue to fight for - is a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if other people's children and grandchildren can live in freedom and access opportunity...