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Dollar Tree tends to look for locations in suburban shopping areas, near a Walmart, Target, Sam's Club or a large grocery chain, in an effort to lure bargain-seeking customers from these stores. "If we are where the shoppers are anyway, it's a win-win for the customer, and for us," says Reid. Boosting the number of stores may help it steal market share from its chief competitors, Dollar General and Family Dollar, which have also done well in the recession and have significantly more stores than Dollar Tree (around 8,500 and 6,500, respectively). Dollar Tree...
Instead, in announcing the arrests, officials had to concede that they had "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack." What the FBI had were bits and pieces of evidence--handwritten notes on bomb-making techniques, materials that could be used for explosives--that, taken together, hint at the "backpack bombs" used by terrorists in Madrid in 2004 and London...
Senior Matt Luft, the Crimson’s top receiver, missed the game with an injury, and Winters’ favorite target, junior Chris Lorditch, finished with just one catch for 13 yards—though a second-quarter catch that was ruled out-of-bounds should have been called a touchdown, according to video replay...
...Crimson registered twenty-four shots on the night—with seven from Akpan alone—nine of which were on target. Yale, on the other hand, recorded a meager eight shots with none on goal, leaving sophomore goaltender Austin Harms yawning in the Harvard...
...been a favorite target of insurgents. In February, John Solecki, the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Baluchistan, was kidnapped by Baluch separatist fighters and held for two months before being released. In June, the U.N. was forced to pull its staff out of Peshawar, the capital of the lawless North-West Frontier Province, after a vehicle laden with explosives slammed into the side of a hotel in the city, killing 17 people. Just hours after Monday's attack, the U.N. said all of its offices in Islamabad would be closed indefinitely. That could severely hamper relief...